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 ...

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 ...

“Hello everyone — welcome to the 50th Alaska Folk Festival,” Erin Heist, the evening’s host, offered as an expected greeting to begin the usual introductions for what was both an ordinary and historic ...

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 ...