As part of Fieldlines, a music residency programme, UK producer Vivek Sharda and a group of Rajasthani musicians perfected ...

Formed in London’s King’s Cross in 1982, The Pogues were originally named Pogue Mahone – an Anglicisation of the Irish phrase ...

The UK's most streamed folk band have been announced as this year's Bristol Harbour Festival main stage headliner - and ...

it’s never a surprise to see people celebrate the work of Leonard Cohen when they reel off their favourite folk songs in history. Considering that as a genre, its recorded origins go back further than ...

When Bob Dylan first entered the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s, one of his biggest competitors was also one of his greatest mentors.

Mark Radcliffe explores the wide range of traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic music from around the UK and the world, with regular interviews and live sessions.

Getting into folk and electronica? These four albums are essential folktronica albums that are perfect for those new to the ...

A new four-song EP by British singer and actor Marianne Faithfull ... One side of the EP would be inspired by her debut pop LP 'Marianne Faithfull' while the flip would honor her folk roots on 'Come ...

Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk ...

Bristol-based seven-piece group Ushti Baba will perform live at Small World on Friday, March 21, supported by DJ Miss Mitten. Describing themselves as a 'raging folk group', their music combines ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Before it became sordidly meme-efied, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Sound of Silence’ was rightfully heralded as one of the greatest folk songs ever written. As it happens, the very fact that it found itself ...