The greatest storytellers of folk rock include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Richard Thompson. Here's a look at ...

Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

In 1958, the Highwaymen formed by a group of freshmen at Wesleyan University, led by singer Dave Fisher, along with Bob Burnett, Chan Daniels, Steve Trott, and Steve Butts, to the Highwaymen. By the ...

Dave Fisher, singer and vocal arranger for the early ’60s folk group the Highwaymen, died May 7 of myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disease, in Rye, N.Y. He was 69. Connecticut-born Fisher founded the ...

Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962 ...

The trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon, scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.” By Jim Farber Mary Travers of the 1960s folk ...

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 86. Yarrow died at his home in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, The New York Times reported ...

A Maine barn with strong ties to legendary 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary has gone up for sale for a seven figure price. The four–story South Blue Hill property, known locally as the Henhouse, ...

Peter Yarrow, one of three singers in the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. He was 86. Yarrow passed away Tuesday after a four-year battle with bladder cancer, his publicist confirmed ...

The enduring myth is that the Beatles and their UK brethren were a much-needed shot in the arm for an otherwise moribund American pop music scene of the early 1960s. The story goes that “the ...