The awards will be presented on the first night of Folk Alliance International's 38th annual conference, set for Jan. 21-25 ...

Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music ...

These three female folk artists changed the genre in very important ways, and their stories couldn't be more different than one another.

Aretha Franklin won countless awards in her lifetime. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall ...

Stevie Nicks, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and John Denver are just a few genre-bending voices who were well-known in folk music. That being said, there are quite a few singers, both young ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions infiltrate the ...

Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots. A Canadian ...

I confess to a bias. I am proudly an intellectual product of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. One of the more trenchant cartoons of the period was an elephant dancing clumsily among a flock of ...