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The best of traditional and contemporary folk music each week. Here's your place to listen to the latest edition of The Folk Show, hosted by Mike Alzo, anytime you want. This edition is the lead segment of this stream, which will be available until next week's show is posted. (Updates Tuesday at 3 am.)

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Folk Music

Paul Kelly On Mountain Stage

The Australian singer-songwriter performs a career-spanning set of country, rock, folk and more.

You've Never Heard Simon And Garfunkel's 'Bookends'?!

Hear how intern Jenna Strucko discovered an "old friend" of her own in the classic folk album.

First Listen: Mount Eerie, 'Clear Moon'

Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum has long ruminated on nature as a means to tangibly address his own life. His new <em>Clear Moon</em> finds common ground in experimental folk songs, electronics and ambient black metal in a hypnotically...

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros In Concert

Hear the 11-person psychedelic folk band perform songs from its new album, <em>Here</em>, live from WXPN. The group's sound calls to mind Polyphonic Spree and Bob Marley, but it's hard to pin a single genre on its psychedelic, rocking,...

First Listen: Damon Albarn, 'Dr Dee'

The Blur and Gorillaz singer has recorded a willfully obscure folk opera, full of baroque flourishes, spoken asides, unsettling rhythm tracks, guest vocalists and hairpin turns that lead down unpredictable cul de sacs.

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