The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

Today in Music History for Nov. 12: In 1818, English church organist and composer Henry Hemy was born. Of his several original compositions, the best known is the tune "St. Catherine," to which is ...

At the beginning of the year, Tamara Lindeman, the super-chill Canadian folk artist who records as the Weather Station, released her lovely album Humanhood. She evidently had some songs left over.

The aurora borealis draws thousands of visitors to the Far North each year. A new play tells the lights’ tales from the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Canadian singer JP Saxe changed the lyrics of the national anthem at Monday night’s World Series game. Before the Toronto Blue Jays faced off against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Grammy-nominated ...

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

The LJUBKE LJUDSKE project premiered with a memorable sold-out concert as part of the “Štrekelj Days 2024” at Štanjel Castle ...

You know the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, but do you know the 1940s songs that shaped their vision of folk music?

A painting of two black cats by a Nova Scotian with the last name of Lewis recently sold for around $18,000 at auction. But it wasn't a Maud Lewis painting — it was a piece by her husband, Everett ...

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...