It’s our final show of the year. So we’re saying goodbye to 2020 with music and literature. But be warned, the culture we’re sharing is gritty. We’ll go on a song catching journey with a Connecticut ...

Robert Sylvain revives traditional Acadian ballads from his Mémère Thibodeau's notebook. Robert Sylvain brings to life the beauty of old Acadian ballads, playing and singing melodies passed down ...

He regularly played "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" in the very early days of the Never Ending Tour, but it fell out of rotation back in 1991 ...

Some folk musicians serve as journalists, professors, and historians, capturing a moment of the past in song and creating an immortalized product that exists as a didactic piece of music for the world ...

v. 1. American originals, a heritage in song and story. The ballad of the Braswell boys -- Barb'ry Allen -- Behind the great wall -- The broken hearted boy -- Charles Guiteau -- Charming beauty bright ...

The film, about the legendary singer's move from folk ballads to rock, is generating Oscar buzz for the actor Tom Gliatto reviews the latest TV and movie releases for PEOPLE Magazine. He also writes ...

After the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that claimed 22 lives, many residents mourned through music. Singer-songwriter Josue Rodriguez helped his community cope by writing a corrido. After the mass ...

When Phillips Saylor Wisor steps onstage with his guitar and banjo at Frederick’s Sky Stage on Aug. 23, it will be with the same mix of grit, warmth and storytelling that has carried him through ...

Some of the finest folk musicians are also some of the world’s best writers, as the stories they articulate in song match the wit and talent of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, ...