Another band on the bill Saturday for the Gainesville Folk Festival is (V)owls, not to be confused with A, E, I, O and U.

With Palestinian history censored by the Israeli occupation, youth programs preserve collective memory through traditional ...

Nālani Kanakaʻole, a fifth-generation loea hula whose life work preserved and perpetuated the ancient traditions of Hawaiian ...

Musicians of the China National Traditional Orchestra gather in Beijing and rehearse for their performance in Moscow, Russia, on May 24. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Zhao Cong, vice-president and ...

This January, an original music and dance performance is coming to Nicosia that places the focus on the city itself. Looking at Nicosia’s multicultural aspects, traditions and communities through the ...

What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...

Mississippi has always been at the National Folk Festival. The National Folk Festival has never been in Mississippi. Until now. Downtown Jackson hosts the 82 nd annual National Folk Festival November ...

No music genre is particularly easy to define, but “indie folk” is about as nebulous as they come. In compiling our rankings here, we’ve defined its era as beginning in 1972 with Nick Drake’s seminal ...

Robert Gordon's transporting film draws on 100 hours of footage that has never been seen before, presenting performances of timeless power. The movie presents a far richer, more wide-ranging and ...

Hickerson helped co-wrote two additional verses of the Pete Seeger folk classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" By Gil Kaufman Joe Hickerson, a singer-songwriter who served as the lead archivist ...

The documentary from Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén, world premiering in the Locarno Critics' Week, tunes into songs from The Mary Wallopers, Young Spencer and more that carry "the oppression of the ...

The legendary festival, where Bob Dylan went electric and so much more, is the subject of Newport & the Great Folk Dream featuring previously unreleased footage One of the Mangold film’s antagonists, ...