IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings are like time capsules, each with vast histories waiting to be uncovered. Some have journeyed across decades, even centuries, shape-shifting and meeting each ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

Thirty-six years ago today, one of the most influential folk musicians in the United Kingdom died at the age of 74.

Quite a long time in the making the slightly dubiously named 'Full English' (cheesy name for real ale?) archive is now online. Charting the development of English folk music in the 20th Century this ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Ralph Vaughan Williams's English Folk Song Suite is well-known as an ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Michael Stock has been hosting “Folk & Acoustic Music” on WLRN, South Florida Public Radio for over 30 years. Michael was introduced to folk music back in high school when a teacher at Miami Beach ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...