This American singer/songwriter is one of the most well-known activists in the folk-rock genre. Her contemporary hits aside, Joan Baez has penned a number of protest songs over the last 60 years and ...

Out of all of the oldest folk rock legends still performing, it’s not clear if Mitchell will continue performing in the next few years. She came out of a “retirement” of sorts to perform at the 66th ...

Jersey City is referenced in one version of an old folk song called “The Butcher Boy,” and the reasons for that are as much of a hodgepodge as the city itself. Hodgepodges are apparently the nature of ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...