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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Sea shanties are a particular style of percussive folk music, originating mainly from Irish and English sailors traveling around the Atlantic Ocean.

Northwestern’s Medill School reports that in the past 20 years, the United States has lost more than one-third of its print ...

A nationally celebrated ensemble is bringing new life to traditional Italian folk music — and they’re performing right here in Rochester later this month. Alla Boara, ...

In the narrow streets of the Waterside and the pubs of the Cityside, Northern Ireland’s folk tunes and Celtic traditions ...

Folk songs often narrate everyday struggles, joys, and communal life experiences. According to Li Hongfeng, a researcher at ...

There are artists who remain faithful to traditionalism. The four old soul artists below are keeping the spirit of traditional country alive.