Wales' "fragile" folk music tradition could "die within a generation" without urgent action, a new report has said. Research ...

Opening with Still Gonna Be There and Northern Lights, they included Second Home, a song which spent two years in the works ...

Folk music is having a resurgence in Britain and several London-based acts, ... England had a folk revival featuring artists like Ewan MacColl who promoted pro-labor and antiwar messages.

A wassailing group in the orchards in Somerset, England, in January 1931. ... For Breunig, the connection to Christmas folk music is even more personal. Her father, ...

In fact, it is difficult to define in concrete terms. Steve Roud, the creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, a database of 25,000 folk songs collected from oral traditions in English around the world, ...

Folk music, somewhat by definition, celebrates a diverse palette of human creativity – a fact only tempered by the wider scenes’ typical whiteness. ... The New England guitarist beefs up her ensemble ...

John Lennon thought Bob Dylan's most "basic" songs were part of a "cultural exchange" between the British Isles and the ...