Mike Firek left his native Vandergrift in the 1980s for the bright lights of bigger cities like New Orleans; Washington, D.C.

Ford has fond memories of touring and recording with the “wonderful” Mitchell, who has a producer knows exactly how she wants a guitar to sound – and how to get the tone ...

Oak Park siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger play Old Town School of Folk Music on Feb. 22, only one of three shows at ...

When a Northern Finnish child picked up a kantele mostly to annoy her sister, no one imagined she would become one of the instrument’s boldest contemporary voices.

I arrived at Sunwood Recording Studio on Saturday evening with only a vague idea of what I was getting into. Especially given the recent closure of The Downstairs Ithaca, a beloved venue for small ...

All good rock and roll comes back to the guitar riff, but some of the greatest riffs of all time came to these artists purely ...

DRIVING THOUGHTSIt already feels like summer, although the evenings are still chilly. For parents, that means it’s time to plan how the children will ...

Over the summer, Samantha Martin listened to live recordings from a series of shows she did with Delta Sugar back in 2022.

After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal ...

In the late 1980s, the whole of the Southern alternative scene knew Beggar Weeds as the up-and-coming speed-folk outfit ...

For her debut album Womb Room, Ailsa Tully mined ten years of field recordings and shaped them into a sound map that connects all the places she's called home.

The Mill River Folk School will kick off its second season of workshops Feb. 28 at the New Marlborough United Church Hall. The folk school will also offer blacksmithing, wood ...