Everybody knows (and some old heads remember) the psychedelic folk music movement of the 1960s. It was an astounding, sudden, and incredible change in music. The age of classic rock and roll had ...

During the 60s, voices for change came together in song. Here are some of the most influential folk voices from this period.

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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 ...

These pictures show all the fun at Dummer Down Fram's Folk Festival 2026.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

When guitarist Marisa Anderson asked to see the famed folklorist and anthropologist Harry Smith’s record collection—or what was left of it when he died in 1991—she was given ...

She "carried the culture and memory of the Colombian people to the far corners of the world," her family wrote.