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

Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon's final live ...

Dat effervescent Ab-Doh line! Oh, Ab-Doh Pitts! Ab-Doh Pills! Dey’s de answer to all de stomach ills! No one has tried to sell a pill to these lyrics yet, but any day now, some adman may. The U.S. is ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

You might believe these three classic country songs were contemporary creations, but that is not the case, as they are ...

WLRN's Michael Stock, who first began the show in 1982, is being lauded by the Hall of Fame for his "deep commitment to ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

If pop music wasn't the dominant genre on the Hot 100, then we think these three folks song would have reached the No. 1 spot ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ian Dehmel sees the future of folk music every time someone walks through his door and gazes up at the wall of acoustic instruments that includes shiny new ...

“I’m on some new shit,” Taylor Swift sings in the opening lines of Folklore, announcing with a smile and a wink that the many Taylor Swifts of her previous seven albums — even the not-quite-year-old ...

Following the shock announcement from Taylor Swift yesterday that her new album, Folklore was dropping at midnight, several fans were distressed when songs did not immediately appear on Apple Music.