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 ...

I confess to a bias. I am proudly an intellectual product of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. One of the more trenchant cartoons of the period was an elephant dancing clumsily among a flock of ...

folk music has increasingly become the quite personal—and copyrighted—product of specific creators. More and more of them, in fact, are neither rural nor representative of centuries-old family ...

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 ...