"American" music includes much more than the western classical music that has traditionally dominated music study in the United States. The AMRC is working ... Cramer and Grace Cramer Small, pioneers, ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

In an on-demand economy, the kind of experience the shop offers is rare — and has cultivated a thriving bluegrass community ...

“Folk music” suggests music of “the people,” but in the U.S. it has rarely been used as a term of self-reference by creators of vernacular music, and has never been significantly implicated in ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86 after ...

Violet and the Newsroom is an acoustic folk string trio composed of Violet Updike, Anabel Peterman and Clay Wallace. The ...