The National Folk Festival, a free three-day event, will begin its three-year residency in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 2025. Six new artists have been added to the 2025 lineup, joining eight ...

Arlo Guthrie, a folk singer whose epic-length “Alice’s Restaurant” became a 1960s touchstone, says he’s retired from performing.

Richie Havens, who brought an earthy soulfulness to the folk scene of the Sixties and was the first act to hit the stage at Woodstock, died of a heart attack on Monday, April 22.He was 72 and was ...

A long-lost verse of one of folk music's most famous songs is to be unveiled by the widow of its creator nearly 75 years after it was first sung. Dirty Old Town was written by Salford-born folk ...

The resurgence of interest in folk music in Britain coincides with a revival of other traditions including Morris dancing, in which dancers weave around one another, waving handkerchiefs; and ...

Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk. Brought up in Warwickshire and trained in drama at Stratford-on-Avon, Genevieve has been a folkie since the age of 17.