Boston Folk
Boston folk is a label for folk singers and songwriters connected to Boston and nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of a long-running coffeehouse folk scene.
The area was a center of the American folk revival around 1960, when a Harvard Square coffeehouse called Club 47 gave early stages to singers such as Joan Baez and Tom Rush. The venue opened in 1958 and continues today as Club Passim. The label marks where artists are based more than one sound.
Artists it is known for: Joan Baez, Tom Rush.
- Family
- Folk & Acoustic
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, late 1950s
- Also called
- cambridge folk scene
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have boston folk among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Boston Folk artists
Lizzy McAlpineThe boston folk artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.