Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. The term “old soul” is brutally overused. But what else do you call a 20-year-old ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Ravinia Festival chief executive officer Welz Kauffman has been named the executive director and chief executive officer of Chicago's renowned Old Town School of Folk Music.

Who are the Sacred Harp singers using a more than 180-year-old hymnal today “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk ...

A backyard in Hopkinton will play host to a reunion of musicians who once frequented a Westborough venue that served as a folk music haven in the 1980s and ‘90s. The 08:30 Club, a group of musicians ...

One of the more enduring genres of music, one currently enjoying a modest increase in popularity, is folk music. The traditional genre often touches upon the quotidian topics of everyday life and ...

The Missouri Old Time Jam meets on the first Monday of every month during MU's fall and spring semesters. Howard Marshall is the founder of the Missouri Old Time Jam, a monthly folk music jam session ...

The Philadelphia Folk Festival returns next month to Old Pool Farm in Montgomery County for its 62nd year. The multi-day concert promises more than 75 acts performing on multiple stages. The event ...