Carty has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues ...

Music legend Robert Plant isn’t slowing down any time soon, as the 77-year-old just made a huge concert announcement. The ...

London, Nov. 23 (BNA): Qalali Folk Band has been awarded the 2025 Aga Khan Music Award during an official ceremony held at London’s Southbank Centre, in collaboration with the EFG London Jazz Festival ...

Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

ANN ARBOR, MI - Kalamazoo-based Greensky Bluegrass will headline the opening night of the 49th Ann Arbor Folk Festival on Jan. 30, 2026, at Hill Auditorium. The Michigan bluegrass band — Anders Beck ...

The members of Australian band Folk Bitch Trio are bundled up and reasonably happy about it when I reach them over Zoom in November, a few days after a resoundingly successful set at New York City ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

The Troggs' biggest hit was penned by a songwriter who gave them bold, raw material in "Wild Thing". They delivered on its ...

Cleto Escobedo III’s legacy lives on. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has honored Escobedo, the program’s house band leader who died Nov. 11 at age 59, by changing the musical group’s name. During the late night ...

The house band for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has changed its name after the death of their bandleader, Cleto Escobedo. Formerly known as Cleto and the Cletones, they revealed their new name, The Cletones, ...

New information surrounding the passing of Jimmy Kimmel's band leader has been uncovered. Additionally, the document cited underlying causes as vasodilatory shock—or blood vessel dilation—and ...