The Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival brings together acclaimed Indigenous composers and performers from across North ...

There’s a soulfulness, a yearning, a depth to Ken Pomeroy’s music that belies her age and harks back to a bygone era. The 22-year-old Cherokee folksinger established her aching, ethereal sound at the ...

Bruce Adolphe's inspiration this week was the pentatonic scale that characterizes some American and Native American folk music. He wrote that flavor into his American String Quartet, the Quartet No.

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

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 ...

REUTERS - Pete Seeger, who helped create the modern American folk music movement, co-wrote enduring songs like "If I Had a Hammer" and became a leading voice for social justice, died on Monday at the ...