“I’m glad I’m able to add some political diversity to the genre (today),” he says, because social consciousness is at the heart of folk music. He cites Merle Haggard’s “Mama’s Hungry Eyes” as an ...

John McCutcheon, a legend in the folk music world, has addressed some of America’s greatest injustices over the last 50 years ...

Fans of acoustic folk rock are in for a treat on Thursday, Feb. 13, when Gathering Time takes the stage at My Father’s Place.

Welcome to CalTimes’s Album of the Week series! We will review our favorite albums and artists, old and new, across all genres. If you have any suggestions, please email us! Gregory Alan Isakov is one ...

Every culture has its own interpretations of music and dance.They hold special significance in the past; now is it a dying art of the world?The ...

World Music Institute will presents pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri, who use improvisation to reimagine Béla Bartók ...

In the darkness of Hill Auditorium, a hush fell over a crowd of more than 2,000 folk music listeners from all over Michigan ...

And as the spirit of revolt crept across the continent from the wayward bus in Montgomery, Alabama, seeping like a new life ...

Purity still exists in modern-day music. There’s the purity of real instruments — violin, acoustic guitar, upright bass, percussion and even cello — coupled with homespun harmonies ...