Spirit of Folk Awards recipients – presented to honor and celebrate people and organizations actively involved in the promotion and preservation of folk music through their creative work, community ...

It's another landmark year for Chris Stapleton. According to Billboard, the country superstar's latest album Starting Over is the best-selling Americana / folk record of 2021. Six years after its ...

Many of the releases in this list use that experimentation to give voice to profound musical narratives. Across this list, you'll find stories of existential reckoning, the search for home, and the ...

Once a month or so, dozens of people get together for a night of traditional song — and sometimes not-so-traditional. This group singalong has hopped from bar to bar in New York City for years — and ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...