One of the many, if not the foundation, of modern songwriting is folk music. We know that is quite the statement, as it is difficult to connect the threads between Sabrina Carpenter and Leadbelly.

“I fell in love with it the moment I heard it,” said Judy Collins of a song written by Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer Rolf Peter Kempf. After moving from Toronto to Los Angeles to pursue ...

Folk singer-songwriter Willi Carlisle is this year's guest artist at the 51st annual Alaska Folk Festival in April.

Offsetting Charli xcx, Chaney’s take on 19th-century ballad Dark Eyed Sailor accompanies Margot Robbie on the moors – but it’s just a tiny part of her culture-crossing, history-vaulting musical ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Folk singer Olivia Chaney explains how her 2013 BBC radio performance of "Dark Eyed Sailor" ended up in Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights." ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Despite the lineup having not yet been announced, tickets to the 2026 Newport Folk Festival appeared to sell out within seconds on Wednesday. This year, the Folk Fest will run ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The Newport Folk Festival has announced the first artist of its 2026 lineup, one day after tickets went on sale and sold out immediately. The festival shared on social media ...

Helm’s “A Legacy of Hawaiian Song & String, Volume 1” reclaims the narrative of Hawai‘i’s musical past, rediscovering the ...

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation released video on Monday ahead of the rebuild of the Washington Bridge. Rhode Island State Archives collects photos to document historic Blizzard of 2026 ...

«Achta ta ta» is widely remembered in Morocco as a joyful children’s rain chant marking the start of winter. But that playful refrain is only the beginning of a longer, politically charged song that ...