I'm on a brick patio at Northfield, a popular café in Kathmandu, Nepal, strumming “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on my guitar ...

I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still considered his most commercially successful single in ...

A folk-song festival will take place in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday, drawing nearly 200 singers from art troupes across the country. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A folk ...

After the last note, our Nepali friends launch into their folk anthem “Resham Firiri.” Thompson points out that, if you lose the percussion, it sounds like American Appalachian music.

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a ...

Ed Sheeran has unveiled his new single Azizam - a Persian term of endearment meaning 'my dear' or 'my beloved' - and mixes Persian and Irish folk music on the track. Sheeran worked on the song ...

He recently completed a new album and had just returned from weekend performances at the Big Ears music festival in Knoxville, Tenn. Known as a pioneer of “outsider folk,” Hurley cut his teeth ...

The last rites of Resham Kaur will take place on Thursday at 11 AM in Safipur village, the ancestral village of her husband. Hans Raj Hans is best known for Sufi and Punjabi pop songs. He has ...