Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

Every guitarist needs to know their chords – whether you're learning favourite songs or writing your own ... chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues.

Every guitarist needs to know their chords – whether you're learning favourite songs or writing your own ... chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues.

But the folk music scene, gaining serious traction in ... making their own statement about changing musical tastes with the guitar-smashing scene, you can see it as a last-stand moment for ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86 ...

He took violin lessons as a child, later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Upon graduating from Cornell University in ...

To continue this proud tradition, every year, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival serves as a three-day meeting point for local lovers of protest songs, quiet guitar strums ...