Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Hart comes to Mansfield Palace Theate this month for another intimate ...

American folk musicians Jake Xerxes Fussell and Sam Amidon made the first stop of their spring 2026 joint tour at The Palace ...

With a multicultural evening, Sunder Nursery celebrated the festival of Baisakhi with an evening bazaar on Saturday ...

I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

When Bob Dylan took to the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he changed the trajectory of American music, ...

In eastern Kentucky, the heritage of folk and traditional music, rooted in instruments like guitars, mandolins and dulcimers, ...

On a sunny March morning in Bunhill Fields, a burial ground in central London, broadcaster Zakia Sewell is musing over whether folk traditions can really be an antidote to far-right nationalism.

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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 ...

Less than a year since the release of Mumford & Sons’ long-awaited fifth studio album “Rushmere,” the English folk rock band is back with a sixth: “Prizefighter,” an introspective but still upbeat ...

The songs on Simon & Garfunkel’s first two albums featured relatively simple arrangements, with acoustic and/or electric instruments accompanying the duo on Simon’s introspective and melodic folk and ...