In the potluck, fast-buck world of pop music, the Beers Family is ... Then, when the fad for folk singing mushroomed in the late 1950s, everyone was suddenly stuck on the psaltery.

In 1950, he was named in the infamous Red Channels ... Pete Seeger was a tireless and passionate advocate for the preservation of American folk music. His renditions of classics like “Goodnight ...

In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

The American folk music legend died Monday at age 94 of natural ... Seeger founded The Weavers in 1950 with Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Their version of Lead Belly's "Goodnight ...

In advance of her appearance at Tradfest in Dublin,  Peggy Seeger recalls aspects of her incredible life in music ...

As a young adult in the late 1950s she found herself in Boston, where the popular folk club scene provided plenty of opportunities for Baez to hone her musical craft as both a singer-songwriter ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow — writer of the timeless classic "Puff the Magic Dragon" and one-third of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — died Tuesday, a family representative said. He was 86 ...

And as the spirit of revolt crept across the continent from the wayward bus in Montgomery, Alabama, seeping like a new life ...