Down a dimly-lit aisle at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Southern Folklife Collection, a shelf of frayed, fading reel-to-reel boxes sits unassumingly. It seems like your typical archival jumble of long-lost ...

"There is something far worse than being forgotten... and that is to be misunderstood." That's a powerfully true statement. Is it possible to connect with and understand different people through music ...

Down the centuries, folk singers have immortalised the lives of everyday characters, from sailors to scoundrels to working-class heroes. Now, a new set of folk heroes have had their stories sung by ...

Because the summer camp experience may be missing for younger generations, FAME wants to cross-level the Frederick community's collective folk experience, kind of like Nick at Nite with old TV shows.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A folk song about male insecurity written by a drug addict sounds like unlikely material for a monumental crossover ...