For years, artist Kambel Smith worked tirelessly on the front lawn of his family’s Germantown rowhouse, creating finely ...

Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux ...

The Museum of Transology in London offers the world's biggest collection of objects relating to trans, non-binary, and ...

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

Folk magic goes by many names in the Appalachian ... When these Scottish, Irish, and English settlers arrived, they combined their traditional practices with Native American knowledge about ...

Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is preparing for a lavish opening, featuring a towering statue of Ramses II and more than 100,000 artifacts, including ...

Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while ...

The raw and emotionally palpable single is pure folk-rock at its finest. A subtle twang echoes over the charming vocal performance as a simplistic arrangement makes room for the poetic songwriting.

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...