NISSWA — Nisswa-stämman Scandinavian Folk Music festival will host its final festival, virtually, June 11-13. For 21 years, Nisswa-stämman has been one of the premier Scandinavian folk music festivals ...

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 ...

Folk music’s power to unite was apparent in late 2022 when “Stefania” won that year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The song and ...

Folk music comes in and out of vogue, and it’s been that way since the folk singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. Naturally, some of the biggest names in folk have had their career ups and downs. But ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am ...

This past January, singer/songwriter Julie Byrne released her second full-length album, Not Even Happiness. Byrne currently lives in New York City, where she works seasonally as a Central Park ranger, ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

Music has always been central to us here at Paste. The music staff covers all they can when it comes to the popular music of the day, but personal preference is still inevitable. Indie rock in ...

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has unveiled its 2026 line-up, with a mix of iconic veteran acts (the UK’s Billy Bragg), ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Norwegian poet Wera Saether founded 'Mayer Tori' to preserve authentic Bengali folk traditions by teaching children traditional music.