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.

Paul Simon Always Felt He Came in 'Second' to This '60s Folk Hero originally appeared on Parade. The music industry of the 1960s was constantly evolving, and Paul Simon was keenly aware of its ...

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

When it comes to Bob Dylan, there is no artist more intimately acquainted with his work than Joan Baez. The musical geniuses had a complicated relationship that intertwined personal affections and ...

Folk singer-songwriter and storyteller, Arlo Guthrie, who changed the paradigm of late ’60s folk music with his song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” returns to Carnegie Hall, the storied New York City ...

Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baezplay at the ...

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 ...

Sounds like: A ’60s Greenwich Village artist traveled through time, gathering a hard outer shell along the way. When asked how she would describe her sound, AC Sapphire doesn’t mince words: “This has ...

Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world with such hit songs as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer," has died at 86. He had bladder cancer, ...

NEW YORK - 1961: Bob Dylan performs at The Bitter End folk club in Greenwich Village in 1961 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Sigmund Goode/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) For author and ...

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan are two of the most iconic musicians of the '60s, and while they've always had a devoted following, ...