What do Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Simon & Garfunkel all have in common? They all emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and went on to have ...

Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

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 ...

In the 1960s, folk music transformed itself from a quaint acoustic rural sound into a form of melodic resistance. Today, we are seeing the return of this powerful art form.

Those were the days but they don’t have to stay in the past. Legendary 1960s folk trio the Limeliters will open the Bakersfield Community Concert Association’s new season. For more than 60 years, the ...

The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter.

Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, from the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, performs April 28, 2016 at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. LOS ANGELES — ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

(Reuters) -American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow died in the ...