Joni Mitchell has won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, with Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) winning over albums by Dom Flemons (Traveling Wildfire), the Milk Carton Kids (I Only See the Moon), […]
Joni Mitchell will be performing at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4. It’ll be the first time that the 18-time nominee takes the stage at the ceremony. The other performers at the 2024 […]
JEOPARDY! contestants have disappointed viewers after they couldn’t answer a seemingly easy question. Fans of Jeopardy! blasted tonight’s players, Michael Vaz, Karen Morris, and Iris Masucci, for their simultaneous strikeout. 5 Jeopardy! fans were fed […]
When Steeleye Span ended their most recent tour with a sold-out show at Cadogan Hall in London, they began it with The Green Man, a song about environmental concerns written by their former guitarist Bob […]
Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots. A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter […]
In August 2016, John Francis Flynn was booked for a lucrative residency on a Disney cruise ship, performing with a band at an imitation Irish pub themed on the leprechaun-heavy 1959 film Darby O’Gill and […]
The lineup was remarkable, with rock and folk musicians including Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Sam Lee, James Yorkston and Martin Simpson joining in on Strolling Down the Highway, from Bert Jansch’s 1965 debut album. It […]
Photos by Dean Budnick The 2023 edition of the Newport Folk Festival concluded yesterday, Sunday, July 30, marking a significant milestone for the Newport Festivals Foundation, which had recently revised its mission to focus on […]
Belfast is in many ways still a deeply divided city, but last week young people from Catholic and Protestant communities – who live apart and go to religiously segregated schools – played music together at […]
My Morning Jacket were joined by a very special guest during their Friday set at Newport Folk Fest: Animal. The Electric Mayhem member sat in with the band for their set-ending performance of “One Big […]
It’s been 20 years since she picked up her first acoustic guitar, but folk singer Raye Zaragoza says she still fields the occasional quizzical look from strangers. “When I first started playing folk music, people […]
Devendra Banhart is finally embracing being a “freak folk” hero. The Venezuelan American singer’s whimsical tunes and eccentric looks led to him being crowned one of the leaders of the ‘genre’ by fans, and the […]
Joni Mitchell’s surprise appearance at last year’s Newport folk festival marked the singer-songwriter’s first time at the festival in 53 years, and her first live appearance since a near-fatal 2015 aneurysm that led to fears […]
It’s May Day in Marseille, and beyond the celebrations – and the ongoing protests against President Macron raising the retirement age – another smaller but just as potent group are taking a stand on behalf […]
Lou Barlow and John Davis are the Folk Implosion, and they are releasing a new album of the music they made for Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s 1995 film, Kids. The album, Music for Kids, […]
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Mourns Passing Of Folk Music Legend Gordon Lightfoot, Read On! (Picture Credit: Wikimedia) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement honouring legendary folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died on Monday […]
Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84. Representative Victoria Lord said […]
Gordon Lightfoot, seen here performing at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards in 2012 in New York City, has died at the age of 84. Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame […]
What is folk music? Is it music specific to a region and embodying particular cultural traditions, or could there be a more open-ended definition? Perhaps it’s a product of the imagination that can be rooted […]
Michelle Phillips. Photo Courtesy of Dunhill Records Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas chatted about her illustrious career in the music and recording industry. The Mamas & […]