You know the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, but do you know the 1940s songs that shaped their vision of folk music?

This is the first of three programs which take an in-depth look at the Anthology of American Folk Music™, an award-winning collection edited by Harry Smith as a commissioned project by Folkways, and ...

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 group is coming through Denver on Wednesday, October 15, for a show at the Paramount Theatre. Uganda-born, Austin-based ...

The folk duo The Milk Carton Kids, composed of Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, play Harris Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR ...

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...