D espite World War II and winter weather, more than 8,000 people attended the first Holiday Folk Fair in 1944 at the Wisconsin Electric Public Service Building, according to a news brief in the ...

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Maddy Elliott releases a poignant folk song 'Calonnau’n Dal i Glymu', marking 60 years since the Tryweryn Valley was flooded, an event symbolising Welsh cultural and linguistic struggles.

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Rex Bell performs an impromptu session at the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe, Thursday, June 9, 2016, in Galveston, Texas. Bell ...

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

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November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes.

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Discover the most popular songs from the 1960s that defined a generation. From The Beatles to Aretha Franklin, these hits shaped music history.