Cellist Denise Djokic has recorded a warm and wonderful CD called Folk Lore. Djokic's music is inspired by folk songs such as Tarantella, an Italian folk dance that inspired Stravinsky. Tom Manoff has ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The gilded walls of the Landmark Theatre turned green Wednesday night as punk veterans Flogging Molly filled the charming venue with raucous music and a rowdy crowd. The ...

Great lyrics are great lyrics, it doesn’t matter what genre of music you put them in. As long as they are true, poetically sound, and rhythmically catchy, great lyrics are going to shine no matter ...

Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...

Over 50 years after its release, Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is still considered one of the greatest songs in rock and roll history. However, the tune's legendary status owes much to the ...

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Even though most would argue that folk music really had its heyday in the 1960s, the 1970s also brought a seriously compelling slate of folksy tunes. Especially early in the decade, releases from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Simon & Garfunkel’s version has endured as a folk classic, it was iconic '80s rockers The Bangles who reimagined "Hazy Shade ...

Modern folk music often echoes the past. Looking at the words “modern” and “folk” side by side feels oppositional. We think of technology as being modern, but old instruments are a kind of technology, ...