An older entry on our list of iconic psychedelic folk bands, The Incredible String Band took the concept of “psychedelic folk” literally. Their music can only be described as what you’d hear from a ...

If every song tells a story, the book of the Big Muddy Folk Festival is hundreds, if not thousands, of chapters long. One of the great music gatherings in the Midwest and beyond, Big Muddy turns 32 ...

A lineup of bluegrass, folk and jam bands brought crowds out to Levity Brewing Co.’s “String Fling” concert Saturday. The concert kicked off with Homegrown Grass Band performing a number of bluegrass ...

When the movers and shakers behind Wheatland, the granddaddy of Michigan music festivals, stage their first “Winter Wheat” benefit show since 2020 on Saturday, they’ll showcase bands from across the ...

The Inside Out Strings band was started the way so many musical acts were born, from a couple of people jamming together. For the Strings it came when members Nate Pitcher and Ross Cameron were music ...

Internationally acclaimed Nordic string band Frigg returns to Maine for a three-day Bagaduce Music Residency of concerts, ...

With a chorus of quick fiddles and plucky guitars, Old Crow Medicine Show came out with a country bang. They opened with “Tell It To Me,” a piece with lyrics (sang with a twang, of course) like ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

This weekend, a flock of folk musicians will migrate to Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus to usher in the fifth-annual Bluebird Music Festival. Much like the medium-sized, ...

The Lowest Pair is an American folk duo made up of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, known for their intertwined vocal ...