The Portland Old Time Music Gathering is kicking off its 27th year, giving attendees a chance to play, dance and connect with ...

The term “trad music,” short for traditional music, usually describes a type of folk music, though it can apply to other ...

“If you’ve followed me this far and didn’t know I was a hippie, I don’t know what to tell you,” Rhiannon Giddens told the sold-out audience that gathered for her May 8 Old-Time Revue at Cincinnati, ...

Riley Baugus, a Walkertown native, grew up listening to blues and classic country musicians. At the age of 10, he started playing music and learned how to play the fiddle, banjo and guitar. Later, he ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — American Roots band Old Crow Medicine Show is bringing its blend of traditional country, old-time string music, bluegrass and funk to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 8 p.m. April ...

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. The Long Island-based trio, known for their signature tight harmonies and ...

If you're watching this, it's because you love a song — more than that, you love how someone plays that song. Several artists have covered "Wagon Wheel," an inescapable staple of folk festivals and ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

An exuberant “Howdy!” is always a good way to kick off a folk festival — which is what Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor did Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24-25, at Hill Auditorium on both nights of ...