The folk-song collector, whose protest tunes got him blacklisted in the 1950s, died of natural causes in New York on Monday. By Debbie Emery Pete Seeger - H 2014 Seeger’s long and prolific career ...

Odetta, 77, a forceful singer during the folk music revival and civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s and a self-described "musical historian" who championed the downtrodden by reviving slave, ...

When Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu took the stage at the Library of Congress, the echoes of generations of Ozarkers ...

Fred Hellerman, a self-taught guitarist who sang about social harmony, in harmony, with Pete Seeger as a founding member of the pivotal 1950s folk quartet the Weavers, died Sept. 1 at his home in ...

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Singer Ronnie Gilbert, a member of the influential 1950s folk quartet the Weavers, has died. She was 88. Gilbert died of natural causes Saturday at a retirement community in ...

George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...

On Jan. 11, loyal reader Kathleen Bergeron dispatched this note: "When I was a youngster growing up in Austin — in the late '50s and early '60s — a local girl appeared several times on an afternoon TV ...

He began his career during the 1950s folk revival and continued to record — and helped orchestrate “We Are the World” — while pursing his many other artistic and political interests. By Jon Pareles ...