Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 29—While Sprung enjoyed performing at high-profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his friends said he got just ...

Brooklyn Folk Festival returned to St. Ann’s Church for their 13th year over the weekend, and those without much musical skill still had the chance to get their hands on an instrument at the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

LONG BEACH>> Banjos, jam sessions and even a few long beards and mustaches are on the set list for a new music festival that celebrates the roots of American music. The Long Beach Folk Revival ...

(OWENSBORO, Ky.)-- A banjo played by folk music icon Pete Seeger during protest rallies in the 1960s has a new home at the International Bluegress Music Museum. California musician Carl Pagter ...

A global pandemic sure makes for a strange time to release a new book. On the one hand, appetites for reading are high, as those in isolation look to books — along with Netflix and booze — to stave ...

Cindy Howes talks with old-time player Jake Blount in this episode of the Basic Folk podcast. They discuss his work of elevating and revealing Black people’s massive contributions in traditional folk ...

I stood outside the front door of the Quattlebaum Funeral Home in Roanoke, Alabama and watched the hearse pull from the door, drive down the hill and turn left towards Rock Mills. About a dozen ...

When Enda Scahill and Fergal Scahill and Martin Howley and David Howley, two sets of brothers from Galway, Ireland, first heard the music of Johnny Cash and other influential classic American ...