The 1960s folk revival may have peaked by the middle of the decade, but several influential artists carried on the tradition.

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Rajasthani folk artists from the Ismail Langa group created a local version of Shakira's hit "Waka Waka." Shared on Instagram ...

The Australian folk band The Paper Kites has a new song called "When The Lavender Blooms." It offers some advice about how to appreciate the present moment.

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“Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. ” — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Hope lives in sound. It lives in memory. And in ...

Originally planned to be the second concert at this year's Proms reuniting Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, this morning's intriguing programme of Folk Songs and Dances is now ...

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter. By Clay Risen Joe Hickerson, a singer and songwriter who as the lead archivist ...

To quote Louis Armstrong, “All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” No horses at the Lowell Folk Festival, but lots of songs and lots of folks. Taking Armstrong’s definition ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...