Music isn’t just sound in America, it’s identity, memory, and motion. From desert stages to mountain valleys, from jazz to ...

Thirty-six years ago today, one of the most influential folk musicians in the United Kingdom died at the age of 74.

Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR ...

ON Christmas Eve, 1956, a 15-year-old boy heads due south on a five-hour Greyhound Bus journey from his home in Hibbing, ...

I bet that you still listen to these three one-hit wonders from 1972 on occasion today. They've aged incredibly well!

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Woody Guthrie fans will soon get new music from the revolutionary folk singer 58 years after his death. Guthrie’s estate and Shamus Records will release “Woody at Home, Vol. 1 and 2″ on Thursday, Aug.

The band consisting of Dudley-Brian Smith, wife Jan Smith, and brother Bob Smith have been playing together for 52 years and have put out 36 albums.

While touring the U.S., folk musician Grant Peeples pulled inspiration from the interstates that endlessly stretched in front of him. When he returned to Florida, the roadkill and landfills he often ...

The St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will open its 41st concert season with “Time to Explore,” a program that illuminates how classical composers have availed ...