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

What is the most famous decade for folk music? That is a subjective answer, but fans, critics, and historians would probably all agree that it is the 1960s. Between the abundance of folk music that ...

The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st-century Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a ...

Kikuyu elders led by Ndia MP George Kariuki visited Raila Odinga’s Opoda Farm in Bondo, offering bulls to his family in a ...

A self-taught composer and interpreter, she led an unconventional and itinerant life devoted to spreading Chilean folkloric music. via Gisela Cares Reyes and Cineteca Nacional de ChileCredit ...

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, ...

Bob Dylan's music has never pulled any punches. The raw emotion, the unapologetic lyrics, the storytelling—it all amalgamated into the essence of who Dylan is. He was also among the first to bring ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

John Denver's music has touched a generation of listeners, but few know that one of his most beloved songs is his most misleading, for one key reason. Denver's 1971 Hit "Take Me Home Country Roads" is ...

Bihar Elections 2025: No official announcement has been made about Maithili Thakur's candidature. (Image: X) Bihar Elections 2025: Folk singer Maithili Thakur is emerging as one of the fresh names in ...

Joe Sheehan has traveled quite a distance — literally — since he first began taking piano lessons while growing up in Leechburg. A lifelong student of music and now a Duquesne University professor and ...