Folk News

The Wrecking Crew was a famed Los Angeles collective of studio musicians who backed everyone from Simon & Garfunkel to the Beach Boys in the 1960s, and the Carpenters to the Captain & Tennille in the 1970s.

Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock both grew up in the New York suburbs and reside in the Pacific Northwest, but they only met after Aesop sent Dawson a fan letter; they eventually evolved into a duo they call The Uncluded.

People queued into the street to buy tickets for punk poet John Cooper Clarke and folk musician June Tabor as Hebden Bridge Festival announced its 20th programme.

Councilman Woody McEvers and Huckleberries photographer Duane Rasmussen photographed the work under way at McEuen Field Friday afternoon.

About 130 people have retraced Arlo Guthrie's journey immortalized in the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" to raise money and awareness for Huntington's disease.

Performing in The Flagpole Radio Cafe, from left to right, Rob Bonacorso, Rick Brodsky, Dick Neil, Howie Bujese, Francine Wheeler, Jim Allyn, Martin Blanco, David Wheeler and Kate Katcher at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn.

Although singer/songwriter David Bromberg has been in the business nearly 50 years, the concept of flying under the radar is still an apt way to describe his career to this point.

Bernard Mack was ready for a trip down memory lane on Saturday night during Guitar Jam V at the Colonial Theatre.

Monday, May 20th, 7:30 PM Kristi Stice will be doing a second album release show at Underbelly in Jacksonville, Florida.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was to premiere Sunday night.

The annual Living Traditions Festival - a three-day cultural event that kicks off Friday, May 17 - features ethnic food, children's crafts, bocce, and music and dance performances from around the world.

Following upon previous concerts which explored the joys and challenges of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, the singers will now reflect on all that the years have given, from the wisdom of "On Children" by Sweet Honey in the Rock to the sweet memories of "Music in My Mother's House" by Stuart Stotts.

Morrissey, "Kill Uncle" - This newly remastered version of the Mancunian malcontent's second solo album expands on the 1991 original with the inclusion of three bonus tracks,"Pashernate Love," the alternate "live in studio" version of "There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends" and a surprising cover of Herman's Hermits' 1966 single, "East ... (more)

Two motions are listed on the Order Paper for the May plenary sitting of the Tobago House of Assembly on Thursday.

Steve Earle produces songs, short stories, novels, and plays the way most people breathe.

Manufacturing and shipping. Brickworkers and railworkers. When incorporated as a city in 1913, Beacon was known for hatmaking.

Carlos Edward Kennedy appears in Mobile County District Court for a bail hearing on Friday, Sept.

President John F. Kennedy addresses a crowd May 18, 1963, during a visit to the Tennessee Valley Authority Muscle Shoals Reservation to mark TVA's 30th anniversary.

Singer Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying during a concert at the Huxleys on November 7, 2012, in Berlin.

More energized and focused than ever before in their near 25-year career, roots-music troubadours Donna the Buffalo will debut their first studio album in five years, Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday, on June 18 via Sugar Hill Records.