Ireland's Favourite Folk Song is a brand new RTÉ TV series presented in association with IMRO, celebrating the songs that define us as a people.

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Folk lovers, we are bringing you 10 easiest folk songs to play on acoustic guitar so you don’t think we forgot about you. Folk songs date from 19th century and had many definitions through the years.

Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers were a famous American folk music group formed in 1961 in New York City. They gained immense popularity in the 1960s for their beautiful harmonies and ...

American folk songs are old songs that tell real stories. Many were passed down by ear, not written on paper. They speak about love, loss, work, hope, and the hard parts of life. Some are sweet and ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...

Not many of Billy Joel’s fans likely think of him as a folk singer. For one, the piano, Billy’s instrumental weapon of choice, doesn’t always fit into the folk idiom. Also, Joel comes off as a bit ...

Ireland’s Favourite Folk Song, a brand new RTÉ series celebrating the songs that define us as a people, begins on RTÉ One on 28th April at 7.30pm. As RTÉ prepares to showcase the songs that the people ...