Ontario-based singer-songwriter Kate Maki's new album, On High, is a collection of pastoral country-folk songs that soar with gentle beauty.
The mobile home also served as the recording space where he crafted the 10 wistful and messy anti-folk songs on Come Home.
The small town of Doylestown, PA is the base of Peasant's operations, which is a fitting origin for DeRose's intimate and earthy neo-folk songs.
Singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins offers a mix of folk-flavored pop songs in a special, midday concert from the World Cafe live stage in Philadelphia, Pa.
Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers.
Elena Piskunova likes to sing melancholic Russian folk songs in traffic jams - she claims it's the best way to relax muscles and relieve stress.
Blitzen Trapper's latest album, Furr, finds the group paring down its frenzied energy in favor of concise, memorable songs full of folk-influenced guitars and banjos, chirping synths and the occasional melodica.
Cabic and Banhart draw inspiration from the same set of obscure late-'60s British folk songs, and while Vetiver's music has always sounded as if it were dug out of amber, on Thing of the Past Cabic turns to his record collection for material, not just guidance.
An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
Merritt's music is hard to pin down: She incorporates gospel, soul, '70s California rock 'n' roll and warm echoes of Joni Mitchell's brand of folk music into her piano-based country songs.
Jaymay's debut album, Autumn Fallin', is a collection of charmingly heartbroken songs that mix bluesy-folk and pop.
With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor.
His most recent effort, the sprawling 17-song folk tale My Name Is Buddy, revisits the Dustbowl ballad form and Depression-era road songs.
The couple, in their 50s and foster carers for seven years, said they had encouraged the children - who are European migrants - to speak their own language and sing folk songs.
Disarmingly measured and charming in conversation, Mr Blocher shows the fire in his belly when out on the campaign, singing patriotic folk songs and bellowing at rallies, especially in the German-Swiss valleys.
Part Mass, part-outdoor concert, the ceremonies began with a medley of Cuban folk songs from around Santiago before the pontiff entered the crowd in his Popemobile.
They were allowed to march holding flags and singing folk songs for a half an hour, and then returned to their bullet-proof buses.
Her fingerpicked guitar lines and delicate melodies have roots in traditional folk, but given a choice, her songs always choose the overgrown, lesser-worn paths that lead in unexpected directions.
Shanti and Buck Curran, who write and record under the name Arborea, are pitched as a husband-and-wife folk duo from Maine, but there's very little in their songs that resembles traditional roots music.
NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on Nora Guthrie's unlikely selection for the latest anointed artist a German cabaret star and former clown, and the first non-English speaker given full access to the famed folk singer's huge archive of songs.
Their sound has matured, the songs are more developed and it's a vividly textured album that mixes prog-psyche folk with poly-rhythms and ephemeral themes.
At the head of the traditional folk revival coming out of Boston is Ellis Paul, whose charismatic performances, approachable style and beautifully rendered story-songs have helped him find respect and acclaim on an international scale.
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