Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise.

These three female folk artists changed the genre in very important ways, and their stories couldn't be more different than one another.

Scott Jeffers is the front man for the band Traveler. He’s been performing his eclectic style of music around the Valley for years.

Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR's Kathryn Fink has this remembrance. KATHRYN FINK ...

Compilations like this one often include the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. That’s perfectly fair, considering how much work those big names released in the folk music’s heyday and how deeply they have influenced iterations and ...

PERKASIE — The Perkasie Mennonite Church’s Patchwork Coffeehouse will host a live concert with Atwater Donnelly on November 15 at 7:30 p.m. Atwater Donnelly are American & Celtic folk singers with gorgeous vocals, banjo, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, tin whistle, guitar, harmonica, feet and more, said a Coffeehouse press release.

I confess to a bias. I am proudly an intellectual product of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. One of the more trenchant cartoons of the period was an elephant dancing clumsily among a flock of frantic chickens. The caption read, “Each for himself, and ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s chamber opera “Proving Up” is set on the Nebraska frontier, but it takes aim at the hollow core of the American dream.

A self-taught musician, Elizabeth Cotten changed American folk music. The twice-nominated folk musician, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten won her first Grammy at 90 years old. Fiercely proud of her North Carolina roots, her lyrics and melodies weave intricate ...