The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the father of the string quartet and Scottish folk music in their latest release.

"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people." The New Lost City Ramblers strived for as authentic a sound as possible, recording old-time style music of ...

(Reuters) -American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter ... that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who had gone to his hotel room ...

and Maand and Bhajan folk singer Batool Begum from Rajasthan, who promotes 'sadbhavana' by singing devotional songs despite being from the Muslim community. Puppetry, a traditional art form ...

folk music has increasingly become the quite personal—and copyrighted—product of specific creators. More and more of them, in fact, are neither rural nor representative of centuries-old family ...