The Swiss government is looking for a shout-out from the UN cultural agency to include yodeling on its list of intangible ...

In contrast to its incredible success around the world, The Sound of Music performed poorly in Austria and Germany, and was ...

Switzerland's government is looking for a shout-out from U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, based in the French capital, to include ...

Franz Schubert (1797–1828) routinely gathered with friends to perform his compositions, engaging in lively discussion and ...

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

Three folk lyrics that have etched themselves into the memories of many music lovers, thanks to their incredibly timeless sentiments.

It’s proof that folk music’s magic never fades, we bring to you five folk songs that continue to tug at the heart and connect across generations. Folk music has a soul that bridges generations, and ...

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach us a lot.

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

Members of Austria’s Filipino community celebrate their culture at Pfarrfest in Vienna. Image by Cat Carroll. Austria, 2025. What it means to belong to a diasporic community At the end of my first ...

Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...