The way in which the proposed National Garden of American Heroes is being constructed is antithetical to everything some artists represent.

Everybody knows (and some old heads remember) the psychedelic folk music movement of the 1960s. It was an astounding, sudden, and incredible change in music. The age of classic rock and roll had ...

In an era where nearly 41 percent of the global population is 24 years old or under, the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will return with a new theme: “Youth and the Future of Culture.” The free ...

By Paul Grein Thirty-five years after Indigo Girls won a Grammy for best contemporary folk recording for their ... and Songlines, the magazine that covers global roots music and is celebrating ...

Folk didn't practice Wednesday due to an abdominal injury, Jim Wyatt of the Titans' official site reports. Folk had been listed with a groin issue on Tennessee's Week 15 injury report, but he ...

Just on the heels of its popular Solstice Saturday, the Smithsonian is already prepping for its next big event: its annual Folklife Festival, set to start this Wednesday, June 26, and run through ...

This year, Folklife Magazine published a sprawling diversity of stories—from Armenian protest movements to young Asian American farmers. Elisa Hough This year, as every year, Folklife Magazine ...

The banjo, and with it an entire body of folk-based music, is now so thoroughly associated with whiteness as to obscure its origins in Black musical tradition. “One of the first things I heard ...

The 2025 Pulitzers were announced May 5. Feeding Ghosts won in the “Memoir or Autobiography” category. As Seattle magazine wrote in a profile of Hulls last year, Feeding Ghosts “braids together the ...

The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival is underway, with a special focus on the Ozarks for the first time in the festival's 56-year history. Held on the National Mall in Washington D.C., the ...

I grew up in D.C., which means that every summer, I’d go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Set up on the National Mall, the annual festival highlights the crafts, food and music of several ...