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Newport Folk Festival has a reputation for solid lineups — that’s why it sells out every year before the excruciatingly painful, slow release of booked performers. While I wasn’t able to secure ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jean Lenke Jazz-Folk Quartet, a jazz-folk fusion artist and her band, will perform at the Candlelight Concert series this week. The concert will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Trinity ...

The Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has unveiled the Artist of the Year, ...

New York City guitarist/bandleader Adam Moezinia will be performing Jan. 29 at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St., Arcata, as part of a five-week West Coast tour with his group, The Folk Element ...

SIOUX CITY -- An oboe is a tough musical instrument to master. And it's often overlooked when it came to concerto music. Music director Ryan Haskins knew this when he approached the Sioux City ...

"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...

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 ...