The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

This entry on our list of story songs from the 1970s is on the spooky side, and it’s quite a creative piece of work from Gordon Lightfoot. “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”, a folk rock classic ...

Ironically, a song that the Nobel laureate wrote in 1905 to call for the unity of Bengal amid the British move to partition the province became the anthem of a nation born out of its division, several ...

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An emotional tribute to Sharda Sinha — the legendary Bhojpuri folk singer whose songs defined Chhath Puja. Her children ...

Nearly sixty years after Neil Young released Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music ...

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

From 1963 to 1966, a team of filmmakers shot nearly 80 hours of footage of the Newport Folk Festival, documenting performances, interviewing attendees, and capturing the festival’s changes as rock ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...

A Telangana teacher has captured hearts online with her energetic folk dance with school students. The video, which features the popular Telugu folk song “Kanchrode Padamati Nalladidhana,” has gone ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Ralph Vaughan Williams's English Folk Song Suite is well-known as an ...

To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on ...