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Woody Guthrie fans will soon get new music from the revolutionary folk singer 58 years after his death. Guthrie’s estate and ...
Legendary Folk Singer's 13 Never Heard Before Songs to Be Released 58 Years After His Death originally appeared on Parade.
An Afghan folk singer has been executed by the Taliban just days after the Islamic fundamentalist group declared that “music is forbidden in Islam,” according to his family.
Today marks the fourth death anniversary of Fakir Alamgir, the legendary Bangladeshi folk and mass music singer whose voice ...
Peter Yarrow, Folk Music Great With Peter, Paul and Mary, Dead at 86 "Puff, the Magic Dragon" singer was convicted of child sex abuse and received a presidential pardon By Jon Blistein ...
The singer-songwriter's longtime publicist, Victoria Lord, confirmed his death at a Toronto hospital on Monday night to multiple outlets including the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. No cause of death ...
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of ...
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook ...
Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.
Before Canadian musicians like Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen, there was Ian Tyson. Mr. Tyson, who began his music career as half of the folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia ...
As the folk music boom came to an end in the late 1960s, Lightfoot was already making his transition to pop music with ease. In 1971, he made his first appearance on the Billboard chart with “If ...