Kingman Island’s annual one-day festival is back, with dozens of bluegrass, Americana and folk artists and an innovative zero-waste goal.

An inconvenient heap of river-bottom silt was home to dump and a squatters colony before its rebirth as a nature refuge and host of a wildly popular annual concert.

Revisiting the 1969 folk album “Words Never Said,” one of the more desirable rare records.

Yesterday, George Washington University officially launched the D.C. Vernacular Music Archive, which aims to archive all of D.C. music—not just punk and go-go.

Emmylou Harris is a grand dame of country music, but many don’t realize the 12-time Grammy winner got her start in D.C. DCist interviewed Harris about her early days in our fair city.

Carolina Chocolate Drops, photo by Julie RobertsThe American folk music tradition runs deep, and is as diverse and eclectic as the country itself. Old-time music, a catch-all term for folk music that pre-dates what we now refer to as bluegrass or country, is part of this fabric. And while this genre is often associated with rural white communities in Appalachia, its true history is more complex. One part of the country that gave rise…