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 ...

Episode 177 features English singer-songwriter Kristin McClement, traditional Scottish musician Donald Lindsay, ...

Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys . . . Patrick Dupre Quigley admits that he gets "a little misty" whenever he hears those lines from "Puff The Magic Dragon," a song his mother ...

While the current trends of the genre wouldn’t suggest it, folk music is the foundation of country music. Yes, many decades ago, before there was Nashville, the CMA Awards, and Broadway, country music ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...