With the news of Peter Yarrow, from the folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, passing away on Tuesday at the age of 86, it got me thinking about how the end of an era is nearing for a lot of early folk ...

In this lesson, we are exploring the guitar style of one of the most celebrated ‘protest singers’ of America in the 1960s and beyond. A legend of the folk genre, Joan Baez was born in New York in 1941 ...

Joan Baez’s body of work is so massive that even she’s surprised by it at times. Scanning a list of items on display at "Joan Baez: A Life of Music, Art, and Activism" at the Folk Americana Roots Hall ...

Without Joan Baez, its hard to say what the intersection of American music and social justice would look like, if it had ended up looking like anything at all. Music, of course, is not inherently ...

The quip came from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, perfectly capturing the mood of joyful resistance that pervaded San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium, which was sold out on Saturday in honor ...