The ambient Nordic folk band is known to use traditional instruments in its trance-like music. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / S. Bollmann Dark Norwegian folk band Wardruna will sail into San Antonio this ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

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 ...

Some folk lyrics from back in the day were good, others were inspiring, and some were absolutely iconic in their influence.

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...