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 ...

In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from ... Your Face", reinterpreted by a series of performers in popular music. Regarded as one of the most-important songwriters ...

Bob Dylan is an incredibly important figure in music history, and there are a few reasons why he is considered so legendary.

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”.

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 singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86 ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...