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Four of the best examples of opening lines in folk music that still give me goosebumps on my arms every time I hear them.

From Joni Mitchell to Linda Ronstadt, Art Garfunkel picks his favourite folk songs. The singer became an icon of the genre as half of Simon and Garfunkel.

NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest just wrapped up its nationwide tour with winner Ruby Ibarra, a rapper from the Bay Area. Meanwhile, our judges also discovered tons of great new musicians through ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

I'm With Her's sophomore album, Wild and Clear and Blue, won album of the year at the 2026 International Folk Music Awards, which were presented on Wednesday (Jan. 21) in New Orleans. The awards were ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

Just five days after receiving 2026 Grammy nominations for their latest albums, Alison Krauss & Union Station and I'm With Her are nominated for album of the year at the 2026 International Folk Music ...

A longtime music festival is ready to give up the folk for the 50th year. The Eagle Creek Folk Festival will ring in half a century Sept. 13 at Eagle Creek Park. The Indiana Folk Music Society will ...

What do Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Simon & Garfunkel all have in common? They all emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and went on to have ...