Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music ...

Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...

Award-winning folk singer Chris Vallillo will perform two shows this weekend, each with different historical focuses. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, Vallillo will perform "Songs of 'Egypt's' Soldiers ...

Kent Courtney will help mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with his first appearance at the Kutztown Folk Festival. The Kutztown Folk Festival marks the 150th anniversary of the American ...

LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, one-third of the iconic folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. He was 86. Yarrow, with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, captured the attention of ...

MOLINE, Ill. (August 22, 2007) -- About five years ago, Judy Cook discovered an unrecognizable box in her mother’s home. Little did she know that the contents would open a door to the past. Within the ...

Catalan folk duo Maria i Marcel are not afraid to discuss the atrocities of Spain's Civil War through music. "There's a change of mentality," Marcel Bagés says. Catalonia, a culturally distinct and ...