NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest got more than 7,000 entries, including some standouts in the folk and country genres.

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Larry Bellorín and Joe Troop are on a mission to show that music has no borders. The virtuosic multi-instrumentalists fuse Venezuelan and Appalachian folk traditions on the harp, banjo, cuatro ...

Matt Watroba, the host of WKAR’s music program “ Folk With Matt Watroba,” credits the Ten Pound Fiddle with playing an instrumental role in keeping a show like his on the air.

From an early age country and folk icon Mary Chapin Carpenter, 67, claimed she was fascinated with music. "I grew up listening to all kinds of music," the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame ...