Folk music icon Christine Lavin will headline the Rose Garden Coffeehouse, featuring wit, storytelling, and song.

For such a peaceful, timeless song like "Scarborough Fair", it created a surprisingly deep rift between two folk musicians in ...

PORTLAND — Mayo Street Arts will present an evening of traditional Irish song and dance with Fódhla at Mayo Street Arts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.

Well before the advent of the drum machine or even the piano, there was folk music. These rich musical traditions have been inspiring composers of art music for centuries. Let's whet our musical ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am sceptical about awards. One of my favourite things about writing for The ...

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 ...

Having begun in the 1940's and then surging in popularity in the 1960's, American folk-music again is enjoying a revival of sorts. Maybe it's because of the recent wars in the world and people yearn ...

You'll be trained as a skilled performer, and there are opportunities in music education and the music industry in recording studios, production and sound engineering. You will learn in-demand skills ...

In her hands, the pipa seems to come alive as each touch of performer Zhao Cong makes magic come from the traditional musical instrument. On the stage along the West Lake in Hangzhou, East China's ...

It’s a point I’ve made often in this column, but once again for those at the back: there is really no such thing as a folk ‘revival’. The term implies a cycle of death and rebirth, where in reality ...