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, The New York ...

HOLLYWOOD -- Folk music great Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame is using some of his music past as a present to the future of some lucky non-profits. He's out with a new compilation album ...

Former Folk Arts Rare Records owner Lou Curtiss, who promoted concerts and ran a retail record store in San Diego for nearly a half a century, has passed away at the age of 79. Folk Arts and Rare ...

Angela and Ellen Harper discuss Ellen's riveting memoir “Always A Song.” This book takes readers on an intimate journey through the folk music revival, including vivid stories of Ellen growing up in ...

American folk music staples from the 1960s --Tom Paxton, The Highwaymen and The Limeliters -- come together Sunday afternoon for a Folk Reunion concert at Governors State University's Center for ...

In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to ...

The music of Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten has never stopped shaping folk, roots, and rock music. More than a half-century after the singer-songwriter’s originals like “Freight Train” and “Shake Sugaree” ...

When did people begin writing and singing protest songs? Probably about five minutes after the first person in the history of the world felt wronged, cheated, or treated unfairly. While many of us ...

Pop music has given us talented stylists and praiseworthy songwriters — but only one artist. No one matters but Bob Dylan. He emerged in the early 1960s with a voice as authentic as the genres he ...

It might have been easy back in the fifties—you had your ‘usual’ set of musical genres, from classical and jazz (with few sub-genres there) to easy listening, folk, and its then few variants (blues ...

“The folk era had died — or did it?” Allen Ginsberg asks, with a dash of whimsy, in the early portion of Martin Scorsese’s new Rolling Thunder Revue film. His observation accompanies the early, ...