The CU Folk and Roots Winter Weekend brings the community together while also appreciating the beauty of folk music.

"Flight Lessons is a full, rich story—the heroine’s journey—that takes us into the world of urban birds," writes Gene Kahane.

Captain’s Audio Project is the brainchild of veteran Portland, Oregon songwriter andmulti-instrumentalist James Cook. Here we ...

Vashti Bunyan's star briefly rose in the sixties - then she seemed to vanish. She explains what really happened - and how she ...

Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

A classic Beyoncé song from the 2000s was written after its writer resisted eating pizza and popcorn for lunch.

Don Scoby, Whidbey Islander, post commander of the Scottish American Military Society and avid bagpiper, recently published a ...

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote Marianne Faithfull’s beautiful ballad As Tears Go By to make money. Instead, they made ...

Charles Manson wrote a folk song about himself that surprisingly references The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour'.

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial ... Band — that touch on the breadth of his music. Bob Dylan: ‘Like a Rolling Stone ...

Róise, who was also known as Róise na nAmhrán, passed on a rich heritage of folk music and preserved many songs that would otherwise have been lost, but have now travelled far beyond her home ...

The Cambridge Folk Festival, the world-famous, four-day folk and roots music festival held annually on the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cambridge since 1965, will not take place in 2025 and will ...