A celebration of the 500th Folk Music Hour includes some of David's favourites

A playlist of goodbye songs, of which there are many, some even promising a return.

The desire to classify kinds of music has ocurred in Folk, too

A new world tour sharing folk music that includes tracks sent in by listeners

So many of us have bloodlines that go back to the ancient Celtic peoples of Eurasia. That’s why we love Celtic music.

Humans soon learn to hold something hard but flexible to get the best out of their stringed instruments. The 6th in our series Instruments of Folk.

Our Instruments of Folk series resumes. After plucking strings to make folk music, some clever person invented a bow to draw across the strings.

Our Instruments of Folk series resumes. After plucking strings to make folk music, some clever person invented a bow to draw across the strings.

For te wiki o te reo Maori 2024, we try to unravel the mystery: what is Maori folk music?

To mark 131 years of women’s suffrage in NZ, an all-female programme of folk and related music.

Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of folk song, for the performer and the audience alike, is singing in harmony.

Songs and rhymes for children have folk origins and tell some wonderful stories.

We pick up the theme of Protest November, four podcasts from 2018, with new issues and songs.

Some more songs and tunes too good to miss make up a sampler from over 60 years of folk.

The Irish composer, instrumentalist and songstress influences modern folk with her interesting music.

Young musicians are very talented; some are keeping traditional folk going while others are adding to it.

We can’t seem to help finding versions of songs we think you will love.

It's amazing how many filmmakers illustrate their themes with folk music.

July 14th is the National Day of France, and the birthdate of Woody Guthrie, whose lyrics spoke of freedom and human rights

In which we see the folk artist sounding pop, and the pop artist going folk.

We often think of a talent as ‘running in the family’. A playlist of folk parents and children making music.

The veteran folk artist and activist, so influential in NZ too, has announced her retirement.

Our first programme observing President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

The NZ musician Dave Jordan was constantly inventive, and perhaps the first Kiwi to make a living writing songs.