Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel comprised one of the biggest folk-rock bands of the 1960s. According to Billboard, as singers ...

At 84, a folk music trailblazer connected to Bob Dylan and Paul Simon may be on the cusp of a historic career milestone.

Sounds like: A ’60s Greenwich Village artist traveled through time, gathering a hard outer shell along the way. When asked how she would describe her sound, AC Sapphire doesn’t mince words: “This has ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Few people have done more to advance and celebrate folk music than Jim Kweskin. At 84, he's been playing folk, jug music and Americana for over 70 years. He started the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which ...

For three weeks in 1964, a rock band topped the charts with an unusually long hit that brought a new sound to listeners and ...

Michelle Phillips may be the last surviving member of the ‘60s music group called The Mamas & the Papas, but she seems to be alive and well these days. The 80-year-old singer was recently photographed ...