Playing folk music in an urban setting in the 21st century is a tricky business. Christian Kuffner, the ringleader of New Orleans' Zydepunks, has seen it go bad. "We saw a zydeco band in Massachusetts ...

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 ...

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 ...