The Great Groove Band performs with local kids at the Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance at Altamont Fairgrounds. A crowd enjoys a concert at Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Ravinia Festival chief executive officer Welz Kauffman has been named the executive director and chief executive officer of Chicago's renowned Old Town School of Folk Music.

Folk ballads will likely never disappear, considering our dedication to preserving them and, if the 1960s are any indication, reviving them from history. A ton of rock musicians took old folk ballads ...

In the 1990s, a Chicago public library building that had sat unused for a decade got a second life. Or maybe, because of the traditions at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which took over the Art ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Bould O’Donoghue is an old Irish song about a young Irish lad unparalleled in the arts of seduction. After breaking the ...

Regardless of technological advancements or changing music trends, folk music never seems to go out of style. This may have to do with roots music forming the DNA from which most music styles evolve.

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. The term “old soul” is brutally overused. But what else do you call a 20-year-old ...