Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary label.

Studios
Vanguard used the Brooklyn Masonic Temple as one of its recording studios, in the New York City area, for many of its classic sessions.

Artists
Current artists
•Barenaked Ladies
•Blue Giant
•Chely Wright
•Chris Isaak
•Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes
•Diane Schuur
•The Gourds
•Greg Laswell
•Indigo Girls
•Isobel Campbell
•Joey + Rory
•John Fogerty
•Lee DeWyze
•Levon Helm
•The Living Sisters
•Marc Broussard
•Matt Nathanson
•Merle Haggard
•O.A.R.
•Ozomatli
•Robert Francis
•Rodney Crowell
•Shawn Mullins
•Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
•Susanna Hoffs
•Trevor Hall
•Viva Voce

Former artists
(Partial List)
Eric Andersen
Joan Baez
BeauSoleil
Blues Traveler
Robert Bradley
Alison Brown
Sandy Bull
Kimberly Caldwell
Camper Van Beethoven
Carbon Leaf
Peter Case
Deana Carter
Liam Clancy
The Clancy Brothers
Buck Clayton
Larry Coryell
James Cotton
The Country Gentlemen
Country Joe & The Fish
Robert Cray
Pee Wee Crayton
Catie Curtis
Erik Darling
Vic Dickenson
The Dillards
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
John Fahey
Richard&Mimi Fariña
Flashman
Julia Fordham
Kinky Friedman
The Frost
Buddy Guy
John Hammond
John Hiatt
Big Walter Horton
Cisco Houston
Jesca Hoop
Mississippi John Hurt
J.B. Hutto
Ian & Sylvia
Indigenous
Skip James
Bert Jansch
Paul Kelly
Patty Larkin
Live
Dave Mallett
Edwin McCain
John McEuen
Nellie McKay
Ramsay Midwood
Charlie Musselwhite
Phil Ochs
Sinéad O'Connor
Odetta
Oregon
Joan Osborne
Tom Paxton
Jan Peerce
Perrey& Kingsley
Jim Kweskin
Jean-Jacques Perrey
Kim Richey
Paul Robeson
Linda Ronstadt
The Rooftop Singers
Otis Rush
Jimmy Rushing
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Mark Selby
Shurman
Mindy Smith
Siegel–Schwall Band
Patrick Sky
Otis Spann
Garrison Starr
Big Mama Thornton
The Vagrants
Jerry Jeff Walker
Peter Walker
The Watson Twins
Doc Watson
The Weavers
Junior Wells
Hedy West
David Wilcox
Mason Williams
Daphne Willis
Yonder Mountain String Band