Stephen Foster was an American songwriter born in 1826 in Pennsylvania. He is often called the Father of American Music because he wrote many famous songs in the 1800s. Foster’s songs are still sung ...

They won’t be threshing wheat like they did at the first LaSalle County Folk Festival in 1975, but this 19th annual event, to be held Aug. 28 and 29 at the 4-H Fairgrounds, south of the Illinois River ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

Ranger Don takes you back to the 1800s to explore the lively music that once filled America’s riverfronts. Discover the famous songs sung along U.S. levees and by travelers boarding riverboats—tunes ...

The sounds of Appalachia wafted their way across the North Platte Library on Friday as Bill Behmer and his wife, Gwen Meister, played songs from the mid-1800s and forward. The couple introduced the ...