It’s not shocking then that The Beatles occasionally incorporated elements of folk music into their own special musical stew. Here are five occasions when they did just that and, as usual, ...

Plus, California songwriter Petracovich shares a monologue and new music inspired by her grief of losing a child. — The Great American Folk Show is written, recorded, and hosted by folksinger ...

Without these people – and frankly this is just the tip of the iceberg — its possible there may not have been a Dylan or a folk music movement at all. 1. The New Lost City Ramblers Entire ...

Peter Yarrow — the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary — died on Tuesday in New York at the age ...

From the High School of Music and Art in New York ... he discovered a talent for singing in public as part of a popular American Folk Literature course, known on campus as “Romp-n-Stomp”.

Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited marked a pivotal transition from Woody Guthrie-era folk music to a more electric ... until Tom Wilson caught wind of the popular folk ballad. Wilson was a prolific ...

A legend of the folk genre, Joan Baez was born in New York in 1941 but moved frequently as her father’s employment situation often changed. An early interest in music saw her learning ukulele as ...

The soft-spoken, 6-foot-3, pole of a man with a banjo, was a giant in the history of the American fight for social ... off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan ...

"It's steeped in American roots music, whether it be bluegrass, folk, country or jazz, we kind of blend a lot of those different sounds." "We like to say we're in the genre of making good music ...

It’s All Right” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” into Billboard Top 10 hits as they helped lead an American renaissance in folk music. They performed “Blowin’ in the Wind” at the 1963 ...

NEW YORK – American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Jan 7 at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow died in the ...