Folk music, above all else, aims to change the world. With every lyric, chord strum, and recording, the genre is attempting to shift the minds and perspectives of its audience. Folk music wants to ...

Modern folk music often echoes the past. Looking at the words “modern” and “folk” side by side feels oppositional. We think of technology as being modern, but old instruments are a kind of technology, ...

Have you ever heard a song for the first time and instantly thought: "Yeah, that'll go down as a classic"? Some recent hits have that legendary energy. Here are 25 modern songs that already feel like ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Is there anything to folk music worth lecturing about? When acclaimed music writer Scott Alarik stepped into the Commanders Mansion in Watertown last Friday night to deliver a talk on the subject, his ...

ELKHART — Folk music legend Judy Collins performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at The Lerner Theatre, 410 S. Main St. Collins, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, ...

Fukrey singer Gandhharv Sachdeva talks about his latest music video, Suhe Ve Vibe, featuring the popular celebrities, Nishant Malkani and Himanshi Khurana. Read his insights here.

When Alla Boara plays The Alluvion in Traverse City on Feb. 21, the Ohio ensemble will unfurl a unique melding of Italian folk songs that may be ...