These 23 modern country singers prove that traditional country is alive and well. Cody Johnson, Justin Moore, Aaron Watson ...

Modern folk music often echoes the past. Looking at the words “modern” and “folk” side by side feels oppositional. We think of technology as being modern, but old instruments are a kind of technology, ...

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

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

Through the crooked mountains of Raleigh, North Carolina, folk musician Helena Boling’s dad turned back time with a single CD on their way to school every morning. The disc featured eight of “the best ...

Mangli fuses folk and modern beats for an electrifying Hyderabad show ...