If you’ve been craving some new indie folk artists for your playlist, you’ve landed on the right page. We have been keeping a ...

Since Sharon Van Etten’s quiet folk debut in 2009, the New Jersey singer and songwriter has steadily become one of the most powerful voices in indie rock. With each release, Van Etten’s music grew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Simon is extending his A Quiet Celebration tour with a new run of dates scheduled for 2026. At 84, the folk-rock legend, who ...

While Texas may seem like an unlikely location, the Kerrville Folk Festival is the biggest and longest-running event of its ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

When we want something that will shake our skulls from our spines, we’ll listen to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, or The Who. If we want the opposite, we’ll listen to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, or Cat ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. The term “old soul” is brutally overused. But what else do you call a 20-year-old ...

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 ...