The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...

The American folk music legend died Monday at age 94 of natural causes. His wife of 70 years, Toshi, died last year. As with all influential musicians and songwriters, Seeger's music will live on.

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

It’s not shocking then that The Beatles occasionally incorporated elements of folk music into their own special musical stew. Here are five occasions when they did just that and, as usual, ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

Peter Yarrow — the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary — died on Tuesday in New York at the age ...

For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on. Each type of folk music is very different and can teach us things about a particular ...