Folk Music

An introduction of the characteristics of folk music. There are underlying characteristics, embedded in folk music from which we can draw a subtle commonality.

While thousands storm the famous muddy fields of Glastonbury for its annual music festival this week, why don't we turn back the clock to the summertime festivals gone by, when Bob Dylan's words weren't yet American anthems, hipster was just another name for a jazz musician and the music seemed to h

See photos of the history of the peace symbol, from National Geographic.

She pours fire and fury into powerful songs that target everything from police shootings to slavery. The musician reveals all about her mission to put the black back into bluegrass – and Shakespeare

Check out "Vancouver Folk Music Festival" in Vancouver

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5th October 1965, American folk-singer Joan Baez performing in Edinburgh, Joan Baez, born 1941 in New York came to prominence as a singer of folk songs with a message in the 1960's and at that time...

Captured by a friend on a portable reel-to-reel, this 14-song collection finds the late folk singer in a cabin in Colorado, rehearsing for an upcoming show with her (soon-to-be-ex) husband.

Karen Dalton