Bill Fay, the cult folk singer whose 1970s albums 'Bill Fay' and 'Time of the Last Persecution' were overlooked until the 1990s when they were reissued, has died. He was 81.
More than a year after an investigation disputed the singer's claims of being Cree, she is losing the Canadian recognitions ...
folk music has increasingly become the quite personal—and copyrighted—product of specific creators. More and more of them, in fact, are neither rural nor representative of centuries-old family ...
Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty Folk singer Roger Whittaker, best known for songs like “Durham Town” and “The Last Farewell,” has died. He was 87. His family and Sony Music shared a ...
Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...
Ian Fisher is sitting in a Webster Groves coffee shop eating a pierogi. It’s an item he tries to order anytime he sees it on ...