In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. By Jim Farber Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in ...

Though the term “folk music” goes back to the mid-19th century, its modern coinage typically refers to the post-war folk revivals in England and America—though it can also describe any indigenous ...

Veteran British folk artist and singer/songwriter Ralph McTell celebrated his 80th birthday on December 3. Although not a household name in the U.S., McTell has had a long, prolific, and influential ...

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Hazel Marsh receives funding from the University of East Anglia's AHRC Impact Acceleration Account for the collaborative project 'Romani Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives'. Esbjörn ...

British folk singer Billy Bragg released a searing anti-ICE song on Wednesday (Jan. 28) taking aim at the deadly immigration raids in Minneapolis.

The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...