After two years as virtual, the free event at Spokane Community College offers live entertainment Saturday and Nov. 13 from about 80 performers. The variety includes Scottish pipes and dancers, ...

The 49th annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival featured performers from across the country over the Labor Day holiday weekend at Wheeler Park in Geneva. The two-day event gave ...

Hear ye, hear ye. Calling all music and outdoors lovers. This year’s Kerrville Folk Festival is just around the corner with a ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

What is a folk festival to do after becoming a global news story? That was the central question for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, which over the past half-decade has drawn increased attention ...

When your scribe first visited the Viljandi Folk Music Festival in 2021, it was still straggling along within the lockdown period, held with a reduced crowd capacity. The long weekend seemed perfectly ...

World Cafe will be live streaming the International Folk Music Awards, held in Kansas City on Wednesday, Feb. 21. Tracy Chapman, who is coming off a rousing surprise performance at the Grammy Awards, ...

The gentle strum of guitars, the harmony of crowds singing in unison and the thunder of feet stomping were heard at the Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival, which ran Thursday through Saturday in ...

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Every year in April, Juneau, Alaska, becomes a backdrop for a heartwarming celebration of music and folk traditions. The ...