Maryland Folk Festival has received a big funding boost for its Maryland Folklife Stage. What to know as fest takes shape.

Woody Guthrie fans will soon get new music from the revolutionary folk singer 58 years after his death. Guthrie’s estate and ...

Every year, the free Lowell Folk Festival shows that a weekend-long immersion in traditional music, dance, and food can be as ...

Modern Folk Devils builds on and works with Stanley Cohen’s theory on folk devils and moral panics to discuss the constructions of evil. The authors present an array of case-studies that illustrate ...

The National Folk Festival Musical artists have been announced that will be coming to downtown Jackson from November 7-9 2025. Courtesy photo The six artists can be found in the list below. For more ...

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite univer ...

The event is expected to draw 60-80,000 in attendance in year one and growing to 150,000 in the third year, the National Folk Festival will become a major new arts event for the city.

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Guthrie spent the final years of his life in New Jersey and New York hospitals before died in 1967 at age 55. Fans of legendary singer Woody Guthrie are getting the chance to hear some of his never ...

Ketch Secor (Equal Housing / Firebird) – Twenty-five years into his run with Old Crow Medicine Show, frontman Secor released ...

Plant calls the album — which will be released September 26 and accompanied by a tour — “a songbook of the lost and found” ...

The contemporary Celtic music trio Skyrie is starting its U.S. tour along the West Coast with a concert in Poway on July 25.