Saskatchewan's Regina Folk Festival is shutting down after 50-plus years, artists are boycotting the West Coast Music Awards ...

Aer Lingus representatives, Music City Irish Fest's CEO Brenda Willis, Irish musician Niall McCabe highlight long ties ...

Aurelio Martínez, a celebrated figure in Garifuna music and Honduran folk, has died at the age of 55 after being involved in a plane crash in Roatán this week.

At the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, Toad the Wet Sprocket leaned into their rockier side, a disappointing decision for a folk ...

Joni Mitchell has beaten the untravelled paths of many countries. But some of her most important experiences came from the deep south.

We celebrate the finest in Irish Folk music with a compilation of performances taken from the archives of the BBC. Find out more about some of the featured artists. Managed the rare feat of being ...

As part of Fieldlines, a music residency programme, UK producer Vivek Sharda and a group of Rajasthani musicians perfected ...

Chilean folk legend Nano Stern and Suga Cane Mamas, a group with First Nation and South Sea Islander bloodlines, ...

Kerry alternative-folk singer Junior Brother has officially signed with a record label founded by Pete Doherty of famed English rock band The Libertines. The Kilcummin singer, who was born Ronan Kealy ...

His name caught the eye of Keralites about two decades ago, when music in Kerala witnessed a fusion of sorts, where emotions ...

Thousands of artists, music industry professionals, and folkies from around the world flocked to Montreal over the weekend for the annual Folk Alliance International (FAI) conference, which kicked ...