The awards will be presented on the first night of Folk Alliance International's 38th annual conference, set for Jan. 21-25 ...

With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

THIS second album by Amit Dattani, following his critically acclaimed debut Santiago, was recorded after the diagnosis of a ...

Folk music is one of those styles of music that really defies time. We tried not to reuse too many of the same '60s/'70s reference points in the reviews on this list, but it's so tempting because ...

Taylor Swift is celebrating Folklore’s fourth anniversary. Swift marked the milestone during her Eras Tour show in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday, July 24. The singer, 34, released her Grammy-winning ...

The country singer-songwriter mixes bluegrass with folk, Appalachia with Texas, on songs like "Truth Ain't Hard to Find" ...

No one is prouder to be a millennial than Taylor Swift. However, the megastar doesn’t always love fulfilling generational tropes. Swift recently opened up about the loneliness she felt while writing ...

Freak folk emerged in the 1970s as a subgenre of psychedelic folk, but later took off in the 1990s with a resurgence in the 2000s. It blends the hippie sensibilities of straight folk—pastoral images, ...