In the potluck, fast-buck world of pop music ... They are folk, not folkniks; they offer no burning messages, no protests, no shaggy manes, no bizarre costumes—just good old-fashioned harmonizing.
A long-lost verse of one of folk music's most famous songs is to be unveiled by the widow of its creator nearly 75 years after it was first sung. Dirty Old Town was written by Salford-born folk ...
With the news of Peter Yarrow, from the folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, passing away on Tuesday at the age of 86, it got me thinking about how the end of an era is nearing for a lot of early folk ...
The 82-year-old, from Hull, had been unable to perform ... they were "long considered the royal family of British folk music", according to the New York Times. The family recently appealed for ...