Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Donovan, and Judy Collins—Those are the names from the 1960s folk music scene most often remembered. If you are a ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Students learn about Bob Dylan’s transformation from folk hero to blues rocker through excerpts from the Bob Dylan Guitar investigation. They then compare and contrast reactions to Bob Dylan’s playing ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

Bob Neuwirth, an artist, singer and songwriter who helped make Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin the center of the 1960s music world, has died. He was 82. Neuwirth's longtime partner, Paula Batson, confirmed ...

The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed with a guitar, a harmonica, and a deep suspicion of authority. His songs ...

Folk rock emerged when poetic, folk-inspired storytelling met the drive of electric rock, producing songs that captured a decade’s spirit. With artists like The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Mamas ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...