With St Patrick’s Day just around the corner, expect Irish folk bands in just about every pub you enter. Luca Woodruff ...

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival is an event built on exploration, exposing audiences to what they hadn’t previously considered ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

We Black Folk challenges the public’s often white-washed idea of folk music and welcomes artists of color into the folk ...

After a seven-year gap from producing a full-length album, British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons has returned to the music scene. The group’s homecoming is marked by the Friday release of its fifth ...

The title shares its name with a pond in southwest London where the band formed. After a seven-year break between albums and a solo offering (Self-Titled) from singer Marcus Mumford, the group teamed ...

Thousands of travelers will head to New Orleans in January for the 38th annual Folk Alliance International Conference, the largest gathering of folk musicians and industry officials worldwide. ByGary ...

More top international artists have been added to the lineup for the 2026 Viljandi Folk Music Festival. This year's festival theme is "To Each Their Own Instrument." The 33rd Viljandi Folk Music ...

These folk ballads were turned into rock classics with the 1960s rolled around, and they definitely deserved the breath of ...

Exploring five key examples of underrated and overlooked British folk music masterpieces, spanning from political protest ...