Folk music is one of the oldest popular music genres of today, with its origins going way back before rock & roll changed the landscape of contemporary music in the 50s. This means folk music fans, critics and aficionados have over a hundred years of musical history to draw on when selecting the best tracks […]

Folk music is associated with many random and interesting instruments to perform with. The instrument for folk music is usually regarded as a simple object found in your room or garage, but it must have the particular sound type. Of course, if you want to play with a well-build instrument, you might need to craft […]

The dances you might have seen on Indian TV shows and the songs they perform come originally from folk’s roots. It is the best way to get yourself some knowledge about the traditional folk from India. It is also recommended to analyze and research the culture of India first through their songs and types of […]

Over the last years, folk music has been active and been restoring its popularity. After Bob Dylan’s songs where he used them to send messages about the world being a better place, the folk music’s case has been stuck in the early past and no one saw new folk artists and the revolution they started. […]

Folk is one of the oldest and abiding music types in the world and its history speaks for itself. There are many categories you can split folk music to, it is immense and very appealing to the music domain. Folk music became humble and well-mannered by others due to the adaption to many changes over […]

Folk music maintains an important image for history and tradition sake, yet where it came from and how it started can only be seen in studies of its relationship to other music. A lot of folk songs have been found and discovered in classical relic books. While Christianity in medieval Europe was more developed and […]

The knitted character folk festival is an annual festival that combines both live folk music and knitting. The festival takes place in Warwickshire and visitors get to enjoy food and drink along with the music, and of course, the knitted characters. What is unique about this festival is that visitors are urged to bring along […]

Continuing our coverage on the top indie folk songs, there are many other great songs that we did not talk about in the first part of the article. Most of them in this list are inspired by the greatest Bob Dylan. Let’s take a look at the top indie folk tunes released and, at some […]

Indie music unexpectedly became popular and slowly presented itself to the larger audiences in the music industry.