TRAY WELLINGTON KNOWS that many will take the title of his 2022 album, “Black Banjo,” as an oxymoron.The banjo, and with it an entire body of folk-based music, is now so thoroughly associated ...

As early as their inaugural Sun Giant EP, Fleet Foxes aligned themselves with a class of folk musicians trying to expand the genre. Their songs incorporated folk’s most traditional components ...

Wales' "fragile" folk music tradition could "die within a generation" without urgent action, a new report has said. Research commissioned by Arts Council Wales found fewer young people were ...

Recording folk artist Jeff Warner tells history through traditional music played on banjo, concertina, and “pocket instruments” such as cow bones. On April 24, Warner will perform a concert ...