The five members of The Ruta Beggars hail from across the country and even from another country. Their shared passion for bluegrass and folk music coalesced on the campus of ...

The 2025 French Quarter Festival presented by Chevron announced its first round of music lineup for this year’s event, to be held from April 10-13, 2025. As always, FQF features just local and ...

(AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow, appear at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1987. (AP ...

Stereolab combined French pop with Krautrock to create one ... Elsewhere, Baaba Maal brought Senegalese folk music to a wide, adoring audience. While music from Japan was growing in influence ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of ...

Read about the traditonal instruments of Wales, the history of the music, and the modern artists influenced by Wales' heritage. What are these? All the latest folk highlights, news and reviews on ...

As folk music has become more and more central to her life ... that eventually transformed it from a protestant area into a stronghold of staunch Catholicism, and fostered a rebellion against the ...

A fresh-faced singer in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices ...

His tastes ran the gamut: classical to reggae, punk rock to Sufi, jazz, afro-pop, and French folk music. Virtually all music held some allure…except for the music he did not like, and he did not ...

David McKenna goes deep with hurdy-gurdy powered drone giants France and the La Nòvia collective which has, for over a decade, been responsible for breathing new life into French folk music If you’ve ...