“I’m glad I’m able to add some political diversity to the genre (today),” he says, because social consciousness is at the heart of folk music. He cites Merle Haggard’s “Mama’s Hungry Eyes” as an ...
Eight mentor artists have been selected for the Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts statewide apprenticeship program, which funds teams of mentor artists and apprentices committed to sustaining their ...
The Children's Hour wanted to learn more about Folk Art, so we took the train, and headed to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, an annual summer market and festival held every year in July in ...
(AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow, appear at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1987. (AP ...
"We mentioned a bunch of folk songs, which he didn't know because ... The couple married the following year. They had two children before divorcing. In addition to his ex-wife and daughter ...