Max Hunter spent much of his life recording traditional songs and musicians he met. Folklore is the traditional beliefs, legends and practices of a people that are often passed down verbally between ...

At this point, what does the term "folk music" really mean? At Folk Alley, it's simple: Folk music means great music. We play Celtic tunes, bluegrass, old-time traditional folk and the most ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The seeds of the Ukrainian band Yа́gody were planted long before their official formation bore fruit. The group’s origins stretch back to 2010, when actor Mykola Huseynov proposed ...

Nine-tailed foxes are commonplace in folktales originating from Korea, China, and Japan. According to these legends, a fox that lives for a thousand years can turn into a fox spirit and shape-shift ...

WAPAKONETA —In honor of Auglaize County’s 175th anniversary, a concert of traditional Irish music by the band Mad Maudlin will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 26 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

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 ...

Learn about Lohri’s traditional songs and dances like Bhangra, Gidda and folk music rooted in Punjabi culture.

We’ve been following up our list of the 50 best albums of 2022 with more lists that dive deeper into specific genres, and here’s our list of 15 (technically 16) great folk albums from 2022. The albums ...

Compilations like this one often include the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. That’s perfectly fair, considering how much work those big names released in the folk music’s heyday and ...

Folklore and Christmas have long been entwined, with many turning to nature for hints about the weather during the festive season - and surprisingly, these old wives' tales often prove accurate.