Chinese New Year 2018 | The Year of the Dog, Traditional Asian Songs, Traditional Chinese Music ...

Peter, Paul and Mary rose to overnight fame in 1962 when they blended their voices in stunning harmonies as they sang out against war and social injustice.

Folk songs are No. 1 hits in their own right, however, it is very rare for them to peak at the top of the charts. Why is that? Well, that is a loaded question entailing a lot of facets that ...

Folk music doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being the happiest of the genres. With many popular folk songs telling tales of grief, heartbreak and destitution, it’s far more commonly associated ...

It’s not shocking then that The Beatles occasionally incorporated elements of folk music into their own special musical stew. Here are five occasions when they did just that and, as usual, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late president celebrated the impact and influence of the song, which decries war, nationalism, and the excesses of ...

January 10, 2025 • Zimmerman, who has been recording since the 60s, made his latest album, Dance of Love, with the indie folk band.

The biggest Folk albums of the month (defined in partnership with English Folk Expo) by British and Irish artists, based on sales in the UK of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other formats, plus streams.

That environment included music: Bachman’s father is a guitarist, and the family record collection included bluegrass, Appalachian folk and country blues. As children, Bachman and his sister ...

Born May 31, 1938, Yarrow was raised in Manhattan and attended Cornell, where he first began singing folk songs and graduated with a degree in psychology. Yarrow, who first played violin before ...