Ely Folk Festival – one of the highlights of the Cambridgeshire music scene – returns in 2026 for its 40th anniversary with a ...

A Wiltshire artist has broken into the official UK Folk Albums Chart. Gus White secured the 26th spot with his debut album, For Now, Anyway. The record producer and festival organiser launched a local ...

Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.

The magic of Marshall music and the wry wit of Beans on Toast take center stage for an unforgettable evening of storytelling, spitballing, improv and thought-provoking revelry. Outlaw UK folk singer ...

Folk music as a genre is known for its incredible protest songs. Let’s take a quick look at four of the most iconic folk protest songs ever written! But, it is worth noting that this list is far from ...

The legendary festival, where Bob Dylan went electric and so much more, is the subject of Newport & the Great Folk Dream featuring previously unreleased footage One of the Mangold film’s antagonists, ...

No music genre is particularly easy to define, but “indie folk” is about as nebulous as they come. In compiling our rankings here, we’ve defined its era as beginning in 1972 with Nick Drake’s seminal ...

Originally planned to be the second concert at this year's Proms reuniting Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, this morning's intriguing programme of Folk Songs and Dances is now ...

Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

Even though most would argue that folk music really had its heyday in the 1960s, the 1970s also brought a seriously compelling slate of folksy tunes. Especially early in the decade, releases from ...

The vastness of folk music is the perfect escape from anything pandemic-related. While we may be confined to the indoors (or at least to strict solitude) right now, music is a kind of journey that ...