The Kearns Family, a western folk duo from the Mojave Desert is touring their first record “Together and Alone” and they are ...

Western songs reflect the traditions and history of a large part of our country; the genre keeps those stories alive – stories about a type of work that used to be more prevalent and visible than it ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

For a place as diverse as Tucson, nothing quite shows the artistic spirit of Southern Arizona like the Tucson Folk Festival. The Tucson Folk Festival is a yearly, free festival that has been held in ...

Long before the rise of the radio and the advent of the record player, the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania rang with the music of fiddle and fife, with old melodies first brought to the New World ...

Gene Autry was a singer, actor, and businessman best known as The Singing Cowboy. A pioneering figure in country and western music. He was the first major star to successfully blend music, film, and ...

While many artists dare to cross genres, few cross worlds like new local band Ghost Peppers. With a founding concept that blends South Asian music with Western folk, their inter- sectional sound is a ...

Western Folklore is the journal of the Western States Folklore Society (formerly the California Folklore Society). The journal, which began publication in 1942 as the California Folklore Quarterly, is ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Update: Organizers from the event said the benefit concert raised nearly $40,000 for western North Carolina. The North Carolina Folk Festival announced Friday they are hosting a ...

Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...