Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Sept. 26-Oct 2. Assigning firm definitions to genres of music in 2025 is like ...

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival is an event built on exploration, exposing audiences to what they hadn’t previously considered ...

Folk music, by definition, has always been music by the people and for the people. Whether because of the oral tradition that keeps these songs alive or the way this music speaks to a collective ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...