No one could say I’m not a generous guy — at least not very many. So, when I bought one of my tennis buddies a music book it didn’t make the news. He can both play the guitar and sing (a mystery to me ...

The group was hugely popular before its left-wing activities were targeted by anti-Communists during the McCarthy era. By The Associated Press Singer Ronnie Gilbert, a member of the influential 1950s ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Houghton Weavers have been entertaining for ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- When veteran Chicago folk musicians Michael Smith and Barbara Barrow formed the tribute band Weavermania five years ago, they at first wanted to do a theatrical show that ...

If you’re a bunch of young guys making pub music, you really don’t plan on a 50th anniversary tour. But then ... well, life seems to keep going. “It snuck up on us,” Roy Gullane said cheerily. “We did ...

WESTON, Conn. (AP) -- A member of the influential folk music quartet the Weavers who went on to a lengthy career as a composer, arranger and songwriter has died. Fred Hellerman was 89. Caleb Hellerman ...

Erik Darling, a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who played a vital role in the revival of American folk music and was identified with the pulsing 1960s pop hit “Walk Right In,” died Aug. 3 in ...

Legendary Scottish band The Tannahill Weavers is set to perform at Cà d’Zan House Concerts in Cambridge. According to a release, you can experience traditional Scottish band The Tannahill Weavers for ...

Ronnie Gilbert, whose crystalline, bold contralto provided distaff ballast for the Weavers, the seminal quartet that helped propel folk music to wide popularity and establish its power as an agent of ...