Ani DiFranco with special guest Wryn: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, at Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport St., Chicago.

Pongsri Woranuch, a trailblazer of Thai's country music (Luk Tung) movement, has died from lung cancer at 85 years old.

The Nathan & Jessie quartet, on tour from California, play a lively, uptempo mix of swinging jazz and folk, with resonator guitars, accordion, and violin all featured. They’ve got two shows in town, ...

Times critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock ...

An activist and star of the TV series Silent Witness along with one of the biggest names in folk music have been named in the ...

He met me in a parking lot downtown, next to the small room that serves as the Friends in Real Life headquarters. In February ...

Multihour performances are scheduled every evening of the folk festival, with both audio and video livestreamed by KTOO Public Media. Additional activities including dances at the adjacent Juneau Arts ...

On this day in 1988, Tracy Chapman dropped her debut album and changed the world of contemporary folk for the better.

Michael Hurley, a legendary singer-songwriter known as the “Godfather of freak folk” has died. He was 83. His family ...

The folk/Americana duo Watchhouse is kicking off its latest national tour with an April 11 show at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs. The North Carolina band’s new album ...

The movie "follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan's meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts as his songs and his mystique become a worldwide sensation that ...

From the Swiss Alps to the Wisconsin hills, this group of musicians is keeping the rare art of the alphorn alive.