The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Celtic music played a crucial role in the folk revival of the 1980s, infusing the genre with its vibrant and haunting melodies. The influence of Celtic instrumentation, like fiddles and tin ...

Revisiting the setlist from Newport Folk Festival 1965, the show where folk hero Bob Dylan officially 'went electric', ...

who began his long career at age 4 performing alongside his father, the famed blues singer and guitarist Josh White, before carving out his own identity in the 1960s folk revival based in ...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon, died today ...

Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy presents this four-part series charting the rise of British folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today. With music ...

where Dylan plugged in and made his break from the folk revival. His sound wasn’t entirely a surprise; “Bringing It All Back Home,” with electric rock on Side 1, had been released three ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer, songwriter, and political activist who was a major figure in the folk revival movement of the 1960s as one third of the music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday ...