Sam Amidon — a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Vermont, now based in London — grew up playing a New England folk style of fiddle.

These folk ballads were turned into rock classics with the 1960s rolled around, and they definitely deserved the breath of ...

Dragged along by my dad to see Pentangle, I heard something ancient that kickstarted my obsession with this country’s folklore – an enchanted, subversive and strange version of a Britain where I could ...

And of course, its many indirect legacies include inspiring the nickname of a former Irish finance minister, Ray McSharry, ...

Editor's note: Watch a video of Campbell performing live in the BPR studios over on our Youtube page. Murphy Campbell is on a mission to preserve the sound of Yancey and Mitchell counties. It’s also ...

Jonesboro native and Emmy winning singer-songwriter Connie Dover plans to pay homage to her Natural State roots during her Little Rock Folk Club performance Saturday at Little Rock's Hibernia Irish ...

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello co-directs this adoring bio-doc tracing the British band’s 50-year journey from the industrial Midlands to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. By David Rooney ...

Temple worship has kept alive the ballad tradition through villuppattu. “Villupattu ballads were mostly about temple deities. They began to be written down sometime in the 18th century, and in one ...

The songs on Simon & Garfunkel’s first two albums featured relatively simple arrangements, with acoustic and/or electric instruments accompanying the duo on Simon’s introspective and melodic folk and ...

Anna chats to the cast and band of Ballad Lines, a folk musical by Scottish composer Finn Anderson and director Tania Azevedo. Blending original music with traditional Scottish, Irish, and Appalachian ...