The folk music world is mourning the loss of an influential figure, Michael Hurley, who has passed away at the age of 83. Known for his eccentric genius and compassionate wit, Hurley's contributions ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a ...

Are you interested in listening to folk music but don't know where to start? Writer Dot Smith writes about their picks for the best songs to listen to to immerse ...

Michael Hurley, the outsider folk artist and singer-songwriter who came up in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and continued making music into the present day, has died at home in Astoria ...

The idiosyncratic songwriter and cartoonist had been coming to the East Tennessee city for decades, but his trip there over ...

It has now been 60 years since the Grateful Dead formed ... This visionary approach to folk helped ground the band’s musical ...

The iconic outsider folk legend Michael “Snock” Hurley has passed away. The freak folk legend’s family confirmed the news of ...

Transatlantic folk trio the Magpies play on Sunday 6. They fuse Celtic folk with Bluegrass and folk music in its ...

Michael Hurley, the outsider folk artist and singer-songwriter who came up in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and continued making music into the present day, has died at home in ...

Max Bowden received a bursary from the Folklore Society. Dead & Company, the latest and most enduring post-Grateful Dead project, is about to take to the stage for the second time at the Las Vegas ...

Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the “freak-folk” movement and inspired generations of artists, has died. He was 83. “It is with a resounding sadness that ...