D erek Piotr is always on the hunt for old songs. These ancient melodies and fragmentary lyrics echo across generations, ...

MILES O’BRIEN: And now: new music created from old sounds. A group of British and American musicians named Offa Rex have put a modern twist on traditional folk songs dating back centuries. Their first ...

Regardless of technological advancements or changing music trends, folk music never seems to go out of style. This may have to do with roots music forming the DNA from which most music styles evolve.

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...