Max Hunter spent much of his life recording traditional songs and musicians he met. Folklore is the traditional beliefs, legends and practices of a people that are often passed down verbally between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Charlotte Folk Society hosted its second annual Folk Music Festival on Saturday afternoon. Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church and ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

Nine-tailed foxes are commonplace in folktales originating from Korea, China, and Japan. According to these legends, a fox that lives for a thousand years can turn into a fox spirit and shape-shift ...

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND — A decade ago, Pete Seeger gave the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival a mission statement. “If you’re going to have the torch, I need to know you’re going to continue to ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

Today marks the beginning of the 42nd annual University of Chicago Folk Festival, a weekend celebration and showcase of traditional music that attracts thousands of people and dozens of performers ...

Folklore and Christmas have long been entwined, with many turning to nature for hints about the weather during the festive season - and surprisingly, these old wives' tales often prove accurate.