After 36 years, festival organizers say the event hasn't been able to keep up with rising costs. They warn that some tough ...

Sheila Curran Bernard is the author of “Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies.” She breaks down the myths of his career and how he expanded folk and blues music ...

February 7, 2025 • The fingerstyle guitarist builds worlds with her music; at the Tiny Desk, Yasmin Williams invites us into hers.

The folk music, it’s just resounding. The birds say it ... Describing their origins, Pattengale starts, “We weren’t really tapped into it, or didn’t really know about it so much when we started, ...

Without these people – and frankly this is just the tip of the iceberg — its possible there may not have been a Dylan or a folk music movement at all. 1. The New Lost City Ramblers Entire ...

Green Day and Billie Eilish kicked off the massive FireAid benefit concert, a two-venue concert extravaganza that raised ...

Roots Music Report, a music chart for independent artists, listed it as the 22nd-best contemporary folk album and 54th-best overall folk album of 2024. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

But organizers Scott Gilmore and Sarah Vitort—best known for the music that they make as Fox & Bones—are thoughtfully and wonderfully stretching the definition of folk to include everything ...

In it, Seeger comes off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan’s fame, even as it was Seeger who opened the door for him. Seeger, himself, became a celebrity as a ...