British folk music had a golden era in the 1960s and early '70s. But in certain musical circles lately, it's been experiencing a renaissance. Spin magazine writer and critic Will Hermes takes a look ...

Shirley Collins was a huge part of the British folk scene — but for a time, heartbreak silenced her voice. We talk with her and The... After 38 Years Of Silence, A Legend Of Folk Music Sings After 38 ...

A conversation with music from The Decemberists and British singer Olivia Chaney. Their new project, Offa Rex both honors and rocks the British... If you've never found a way to experience the bliss ...

Considered by some as British folk music's finest ambassadors, Brian Peters, who will appear at the uNi Coffeehouse in Springfield on Saturday, is a performer of traditional folk music who combines a ...

In 2019, Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The compilation album Strangers in the Room: A Journey Through the British ...

CROPREDY, England (Reuters) - What better way for the founding fathers of British folk-rock to celebrate 45 years as a band than with an intimate gathering of 20,000 friends and family? Fairport ...

British folk singer Maddy Prior co-founded Steeleye Span in 1969 and rose to fame as the band’s talented lead vocalist. She’s now regarded as one of folk’s leading lights and has enjoyed a varied solo ...

To American ears, modern British folk music can sound archaic. In lyric, it more often resembles the songs of the Great Depression that were unearthed and released by American folk archivist Harry ...

There are certain plusses and minuses to enduring our current post-pandemic lockdown in the idyllic British countryside, claims legendary folksinger Shirley Collins, from her cottage hideaway in the ...

Bert Jansch, a Scottish-born guitarist and singer whose bluesy, craggy-voiced and emotive style influenced entertainers as varied as Neil Young and the rock band Oasis and whose work in the quintet ...

Imagine being a singer — in this case, a singer of traditional British folk songs and murder ballads, songs of love, hate, revenge, redemption and tragedy. And as the singer of these songs, you get ...