CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Folk Society hosted its second annual Folk Music Festival on Saturday afternoon. Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church and its surrounding streets were filled with the ...

“I kind of feel like I never grew up,” Geslison said. Students play both centuries old tunes and contemporary folk music. This includes bluegrass, Texas swing, melodies from the British Isles ...

The Philadelphia Folk Festival will return to the Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford for its 62nd edition Aug. 15-17. This year’s lineup will feature headlining singer-songwriters John Gorka and Sonia ...

The 50th Annual Alaska Folk Festival is officially underway—and it’s striking all the right chords with music lovers from across the state. It’s all about the music this week in Juneau. Over the next ...

The main program for the 2025 Viljandi Folk Music Festival "Off the Ground!" has been announced. This year's lineup features 11 international artists, 36 Estonian performers, and 3 collaborative ...

LYNDON — Catamount Arts and the Upright Steeple Society welcome Brìghde Chaimbeul, with special guests Iain MacHarg & Friends, for an April 10 concert at York Street Meeting House, 7 p.m. An ...

The idiosyncratic songwriter and cartoonist had been coming to the East Tennessee city for decades, but his trip there over the last weekend in March for the sprawling music festival Big ... What ...

Folk music legend Michael Hurley has died, aged 83. Hurley was a pioneer of the outsider folk and freak folk movements in the 1960s. His death was confirmed by his family. In a statement to ...

His idiosyncratic style of music has been described as "outsider folk," a testament to the Pennsylvania native's self-taught musicianship. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Over the past decade, the singer and songwriter has remained nearly silent, though the past two years have brought renewed fervor for her tenderhearted folk music. In 2023, Luke Combs released a ...

Folk music pioneer Michael Hurley, known as the "Godfather of freak folk," has died. He was 83. The singer's family shared news of his death on Thursday in a statement posted by Hurley's record ...