Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow are headed to Mesa to perform what Stookey says will be "a nostalgic visit through the Peter, Paul and Mary lexicon." But it's relevant nostalgia. As Stookey says, ...

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.

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 ...

Let's look at three early folk rock staples that helped the genre become a major player in the 1960s and 1970s cultural ...

The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to stick in our heads for decades. These songs are more than just oldies; they are cultural artifacts ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a press ...

The 1960s produced some of the most groove-worthy and transformative music in modern history. This swinging decade created a soundtrack for the massive cultural changes seen throughout the world.

For a spell in the late 1960s, the Queen City Balladeers went by the name 'The Wise Owl.' In the summer of 1963, rock 'n' roll was in. The Rolling Stones had played their first show that previous July ...

While Mary Timony has stayed busy since the late-’00s with Wild Flag and Ex Hex, new album Untame the Tiger, which is out this week via Merge, is her first record under her own name in nearly two ...

Another band on the bill Saturday for the Gainesville Folk Festival is (V)owls, not to be confused with A, E, I, O and U.

Ian Tyson, a towering figure in Canadian music who found his greatest renown as half of the ’60s folk-singing duo Ian and Sylvia, died Thursday at 89. The cause of death was attributed to “ongoing ...