This post courtesy of Explore Brooklyn, an all-inclusive guide to the businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions that make Brooklyn great. Although the epicenter of the 1960s folk revival was ...

"This book is partially meant to be a visual companion to Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

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 ...

LARA: TODAY MARKS THE START OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. BLACK MUSICIANS IN KANSAS CITY ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO SHARE THEIR MUSIC AND TELL THEIR STORIES KMBC 9’S JACKSON KURTZ IS LIVE FROM THE WESTIN AT ...

Chicago probably isn’t the first city that comes to mind when you think of country music. After all, Nashville calls itself the country music capital. And besides, isn’t Chicago too far north — and ...

NEWPORT – While most who attend the Newport Folk Festival go to enjoy some good music, fans are also likely to witness history, if past performances are any guide. In the 65 years since the festival ...

Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan. A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a ...

There's been a whole lot written about the Newport Folk Festival since 1959, when Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio and a very young Joan Baez played at Freebody Park. Entire forests have been denuded to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...