In 2008 and 2009, singer-songwriters Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller toured together with a show called "Three Girls and Their Buddy." Miller produced and performed on ...

Fantastic Negrito was the first day’s first act on the big stage at this year’s Newport Folk Festival. That’s the nom de musique of Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, a very tall man with a high afro atop his ...

A singer-songwriter whose childhood was split between rural Kentucky and New York City will bring her unique blend of music to Iowa next week for two stops. Martha Redbone is on a national tour ...

IT’S EARLY July, and Mavis Staples is sitting in the offices of Epitaph Records, a truth that is surprising to her. The 71-year-old gospel and soul legend from Chicago isn’t the first artist of ...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- One of Raleigh's most iconic cultural events returned with the new 2025 Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival, which took place Friday and Saturday. The free two-day festival built ...

An Oprah-approved African-American Jew singing gospel music with Hebrew lyrics at a folk festival? That’s just part of what’s in store at this weekend’s Lowell Folk Festival, which runs tonight ...

“In the beginning, after the word, before rock 'n’ roll, and before there was rap, hip-hop, disco, punk, funk, metal, soul, Motown, rock-a-billy, before bebop, doo-wop and the big band swing there was ...

The Arkansas Folk Festival is underway in North Little Rock, bringing three days of live music, food, art and cultural ...