The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

With a cold and blustery day in front of us and the new Fleet Foxes song just released, we’ve been thinking a lot about what type of folk song we really enjoy. So much, in fact, that we’ve put ...

The San Francisco Girls Chorus, known for empowering young women through song, will give voice to music traditions from around the world when it presents “SFGC Winter Concert: Folk Songs of the World, ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

The 70s era of folk music highly juxtaposes the folk music of the former decades. It’s far more musically diverse and ultimately not as robust as its former form. Though musicians needed to keep up ...