In February, brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith led an all-star band featuring John Legend on piano at the 2025 Grammy Awards. The performance drew a cheering audience that included Taylor ...

A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is ...

The historic Saratoga Springs venue Caffe Lena has become the home of The Rolling Pebbles and Jazz Pebbles, folk and jazz ...

With her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, Colleen Bertsch has much more running through her head when she plays violin than just what note is next. In many cases, she’s got a firsthand Wikipedia listing of ...

Louisiana Folk Roots is offering Cajun and Zydeco music camps for children ages 8-14 this summer. Camps will be in Eunice, Lafayette and Opelousas throughout June and July. Camp activities include ...

A little more than a year after giving the annual Fayetteville Roots Festival a "gentle break" and closing the doors of the former Roots headquarters venue on the downtown Fayetteville square, ...

After a seven-year gap from producing a full-length album, British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons has returned to the music scene. The group’s homecoming is marked by the Friday release of its fifth ...

Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder and curator of the museum, has been collecting the musical instruments since 1995 together with his wife Nanda Sharma. His passion has taken him to all 77 districts of ...

This fall and winter and throughout 2025, Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band are celebrating 45 years of presenting, promoting, writing and performing bluegrass music by releasing their seventh album ...

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 ...