What do Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Simon & Garfunkel all have in common? They all emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and went on to have ...

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Donovan, and Judy Collins—Those are the names from the 1960s folk music scene most often remembered. If you are a ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

Bob Neuwirth, an artist, singer and songwriter who helped make Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin the center of the 1960s music world, has died. He was 82. Neuwirth's longtime partner, Paula Batson, confirmed ...

Former Beatles man John Lennon was never one to sit on the fence and he went as far as calling Joan Baez and Judy Collins ...