In its ‘60s heyday, Newport Folk Festival became the crucible where tradition collided with an emergent generation’s fervent, socially activated spirit to ...

Gentry, now 83, retired from the music industry and dropped out of the public eye by the early 1980s. Her last public ...

The purpose of folk music has always been rooted in the tradition of social, political, and emotional exploration. While many genres of music aim to detach listeners from reality, folk music does the ...

Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baez play at the ...

Paul Simon Always Felt He Came in 'Second' to This '60s Folk Hero originally appeared on Parade. The music industry of the 1960s was constantly evolving, and Paul Simon was keenly aware of its ...

Additionally, Donovan shared a tale about Shaun and Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays, the “Madchester” band whose sound ...

“Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” are among the popular ‘60s folk songs Noel Paul Stookey will perform in Rancho Bernardo on Feb. 23. Stookey — Paul of the singing ...

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan are two of the most iconic musicians of the '60s, and while they've always had a devoted following, ...