The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts ... movie Why Do Fools Fall in Love was based on his life. The Mexican folk song “La Bamba” is also known as La Bomba, and the folk song became famous ...

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

Folk music is criminally underrepresented in the 21st century, but back in the day these three folks songs graced the charts' ...

Seeger was a celebrated presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene into which an unknown singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan ...

In 1950, they began a campaign called Akcja Zbierania Fokloru ... Beside the huge richness and diversity of folk songs, we also find many treacherous weeds smuggled in via manors and the Church. At ...

Peter, Paul and Mary quickly emerged as the winning 1960s iteration of a clean-cut, meticulously arranged supper-club and ...

Seeger founded The Weavers in 1950 with Hays, Ronnie Gilbert ... The final song here is one he didn't write — fittingly, it's a folk song, passed down through oral tradition.

With the news of Peter Yarrow, from the folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, passing away on Tuesday at the age of 86, it got me thinking about how the end of an era is nearing for a lot of early folk ...

Since the late 1950s, the folk community had been dominated by pedants who preferred faithful renditions of songs in the public domain to the quirky originals by an upstart like Hurley.