American folk music

Database and information about audio recordings, especialy about American roots music.

One town hosted both American Nazis and some of the earliest folkies.

A collection of previously unpublished images, by Bruce Davidson, David Gahr, and Danny Lyon.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie, famed for singing about the downtrodden and having the words “This machine kills fascists,” inked onto his guitars, wrote a few little-known licks about Donald Trump's father, Time reports.

You don???t need a lengthy exposition on the underdog grace of its humble Appalachian roots and its transparent threads of connection to American history, as deep as a seam of coal in a mountainside. You totally get the genre???s visceral sincerity so important to millennials, who in their relentless search for authenticity often find themselves grasping back to their Greatest Generation great-grandparents??? traditions for anchors.

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Fair Folk is a radio show and podcast exploring folk culture and music from around the world, hosted by Danica Boyce. On this episode: Kulning, you'll hear traditional herding calls from Sweden and Norway, with an interview with Swedish folk musician and kulning instructor Siri Holm.

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Ballads fuse the arts of music and storytelling. Through ballads, classic tales of human experience are enshrined in poetry and song. Pete Seeger, an American folk hero and icon of the great

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Mr. Seeger sang until his voice wore out, and then he kept on singing, decade upon decade.

Merriam-Webster announced today, as reported by the Associated Press, the inclusion of the musical definition of the word Americana to its Collegiate Dictionary. Americana joins Tweet, m-commerce a…

Since the 1960s, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan have been two of the most iconic and influential musicians in the world. They were not only musical...

Dulcimers, banjos, sitars, tablas, harps and hundreds of other acoustic noisemakers can be found here. Don’t be shy, sign up for a harmonica workshop, ukulele class, or slide guitar lessons. Antique and vintage instruments from all over the world are displayed throughout the storp>

Pete Seeger had been a really old guy for as long as I can remember. One of those people who simply don’t die. Like Nelson Mandela. Of course…

Woody's guitar was famously inscribed: "This Machine Kills Fascists." His songs supported the rights of workers and those on the margins of society.