LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 14: Taylor Swift, winner of Album of the Year for 'Folklore', poses ... [+] in the media room during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Los Angeles Convention Center ...

2. “Going Down To Mississippi” by Phil Ochs Phil Ochs knew his way around political protest songs in the 1960s, the most well-known being the 1965 folk song “Going Down To Mississippi”.

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of ...

The chart visualizes two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair”—one sung, one spoken—by Patrick Savage, a study author and participant. The song unfolds at around half the ...

Folklore #2 - Circumstances of Nancy Wilcox's disappearance The NamUs database includes just a single sentence about Nancy Wilcox's "circumstances of disappearance." It reads: "Nancy left her high ...

As Leslie Brown made her way from the Richmond Folk Festival’s Sultans of Shred show on Brown’s Island to the step-dancing competition at the corner of Byrd and 2nd streets, she kept thinking ...

Charlie Cooper - pictured with a costume head of Black Shuck, a ghostly dog said to roam East Anglia - says folklore can help people feel connected to their environment Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest.

The 46th International Folk Festival, which celebrates the diversity of cultures in Fayetteville, kicks off this weekend during Fourth Friday with the Fiesta Latina, organizers announced last week.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Richmond Folk Festival is marking its 20th year on Richmond's iconic riverfront by "bringing back some great artists" the three-day event has featured over the past two decades.

Liptrot, during her return to Papay, took up a post with the RSPB to track the elusive corncrake, another creature that holds its place in Orkney’s folklore. The elusive corncrake played a part ...

Coritha during a guest appearance at Net25’s ‘Pambansang Almusal’ morning show posted on YouTube in 2013. Screengrab from Pambanang Almusal YouTube channel courtesy of Net25 Filipino music ...

While Gujarat is a hotspot of festivities, the state’s folk dance is not limited by that geography. Transcending boundaries, it is enthusiastically performed in other parts of the country by ...