A legendary Australian storyteller leaves behind a remarkable body of work devoted to history, country and song.

Decades after he recorded "Baby Beluga" and "Down by the Bay," children's folk singer Raffi is still making music — and ...

Ireland's Favourite Folk Song is a brand new RTÉ TV series presented in association with IMRO, celebrating the songs that define us as a people.

With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers were a famous American folk music group formed in 1961 in New York City. They gained immense popularity in the 1960s for their beautiful harmonies and ...

Folk lovers, we are bringing you 10 easiest folk songs to play on acoustic guitar so you don’t think we forgot about you. Folk songs date from 19th century and had many definitions through the years.

It is worth mentioning that this list is far from exhaustive. I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still ...

Folk music legend Ted Egan has died. He was 93. No cause of death was reported. Egan reportedly died on Dec. 4.

There are few corners in the history or geography of music — highbrow, lowbrow, any-ol’-brow — in which folk songs haven’t insinuated themselves. They remind us of who we are. They tell our stories.