On February 23, 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song would go on to become one of the most influential and iconic folk ...

American Patchwork Quartet brings its multicultural approach to traditional American songs to the Ark, located at 316 S. Main ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...

From folk music to abolition and women’s rights, Illinois helped shape American history and culture.

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Originally published Sept. 15, 1988 in the Bergen Record. One was a wiry, white Oklahoma singer-songwriter who tapped into the struggles of those made homeless by drought and the Depression. The other ...

Folk ballads will likely never disappear, considering our dedication to preserving them and, if the 1960s are any indication, reviving them from history. A ton of rock musicians took old folk ballads ...

"Of all nations," wrote Walt Whitman, "the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest." This prediction in ...

Two best friends sing a famous American folk song on the street in Nashville. This shy girl is performing for the first time.

Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys . . . Patrick Dupre Quigley admits that he gets "a little misty" whenever he hears those lines from "Puff The Magic Dragon," a song his mother ...