NY Times Folk News

Ms. Collins offers a version of a personal musical history that is too complicated and rich to be covered in a single evening.

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Mr. Green was a shipwright turned folklorist whose interest in union workers and their culture transformed the study of American folklore.

Mr. Seals performed as England Dan in the folk-pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later returned to his roots as a country singer and songwriter.

The summer music season continues to offer options for hippies of all ages. The concert promoter Live Nation announced that it would produce a show to celebrate the 90th birthday of Pete Seeger, right, on May 3 at Madison Square Garden. Live Nation said the show would be a benefit for Mr. Seeger’s Hudson River Sloop Clearwater organization, which promotes conservation of the Hudson River, and would feature more than 40 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews, Ani DiFranco...

Mr. Cephas was a guitarist and singer who kept the Piedmont blues style alive as part of the duo Cephas and Wiggins.

Dance organizers and instructors say that as the economy slumps more people are seeking out social dancing as an inexpensive way to enjoy music and get a workout.

Amid rumors of an uncertain future for the Newport jazz and folk festivals, the veteran jazz concert producer George Wein gained permission to negotiate to regain them.

Jean Ritchie, 85, a folk singer with a dulcimer, was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame alongside Public Enemy, LL Cool J and The Good Rats.

Lucinda Williams, the acclaimed singer and songwriter whose music blends rock, folk and country, lives in a 2,600-square-foot 1950s Modernist house in Los Angeles.

The comedy team talks about how to make it in Manhattan, why New Zealanders don’t like their own accents and why the government should do its own TV show.

After dubbing himself and his band Milton, the singer-songwriter once known as Marc Rosenthal saw good things start to happen.

The Manhattan celebration of the life of Odetta, the folk singer who gave rhythm and voice to the civil rights era, had both a neighborly and a historical feel.

If anyone ought to recognize a great antiwar song when it comes along, it is Joan Baez, who appeared at Town Hall on Tuesday in a career retrospective celebrating her 50th year in show business.

George Crumb and his music are getting a second wind these days.

Caroline Doctorow, a singer-songwriter and daughter of the writer E. L. Doctorow, has recorded an album of songs by Richard and Mimi Fariña.

Mr. Moore’s standup comedy, records and movies notably 1975’s “Dolemite” related earthy tales that helped shape today’s hip-hop.

A decade after the Northern Ireland peace agreement, the city’s pubs are once again a haven for those keeping alive the country’s musical traditions.

The Fray, a Denver band, played a sold-out show at Webster Hall on Wednesday.