Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

Nearly sixty years after Neil Young released Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

Once a month or so, dozens of people get together for a night of traditional song — and sometimes not-so-traditional. This group singalong has hopped from bar to bar in New York City for years — and ...

When Chris Vallillo performs Jan. 29 at the Grayslake Heritage Center and Museum, he’ll not only sing and play his acoustic guitar, but he’ll also reveal the stories behind the folk music he’s written ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

It’s proof that folk music’s magic never fades, we bring to you five folk songs that continue to tug at the heart and connect ...

Some tend to think that musicians need amplified, distorted guitars and driving beats to transform their anger into songs. That’s not the case, though. Songwriters have been turning their righteous ...

Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. You’re probably familiar with the concept of evolution. Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are ...