Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Fortenbery thought he was writing a record. He didn’t expect to end up with 10 eulogies instead. “It probably comes off as ...

It’s been a free-for-all jamboree for a half-century, yet somehow the 50th annual Alaska Folk Festival still achieved the golden feat of a sellout. Among the many notable numbers mentioned during the ...

The hosts of the 49th annual Alaska Folk Festival offered a bit more than the traditional crowd singalong of “Goodnight Irene” to end the weeklong event on Sunday night, with hints about next year’s ...

The Hooper Bay Bering Sea Classic is canceled, Tlingit & Haida unites Head Start classrooms, Anchorage Folk Festival returns, and Fairbanks Guns & Hoses hits the ice.

The 37th Anchorage Folk Festival is underway with 120 performances, 50 workshops, and Alaska’s only banjo contest, running ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...