For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Long before he was flying “Eight Miles High” as the frontman for The Byrds, Roger McGuinn called Tarrytown home. “My folks ...

A look into the greatest riffs in folk music, covering everyone from Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson.