Folk music is having a resurgence in Britain and several London-based acts, including Shovel Dance Collective and Goblin Band, have won acclaim and growing fan bases by playing old-time tunes ...

The band’s second album (What We Did On Our Holidays, 1969) mixed things up – the band taking on songs from Mitchell and Bob Dylan alongside traditional English folk tunes.

Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this summer.

Inspired by a bear, a moose and a wolf, new album Birna is extending the band’s “beautiful broken family” as they tell modern tales through ancient instruments News Today's news ...

And while they’re traveling a long way from their home on the east side of the Bighorn Mountains to San Pedro, one of the band’s leaders has some surprising roots, sailing in local waters here before ...

16 March, 10:30pm BBC Four. We celebrate the finest in Irish Folk music with a compilation of performances taken from the archives of the BBC. Find out more about some of the featured artists.

A FOLK and bagpipe band based in Cwmbran have had their future secured after being awarded a community grant of more than £12,000. Piping Hot Folk Band, a fiercely proud Welsh-Celtic band, have ...

Indie-folk band Wakelight finds light within loss ‘It gets so heavy, the emotion is so much inside of me. But when I pick up the guitar and start singing, it’s almost like purging.' ...

At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, the Columbia Theatre will be hosting the Lonesome Ace Stringband. The musical trio is built around fiddler John Showman and banjo player Chris Coole, with a rotating cast ...

The Bucks County Folk Music Shop in New Britain is the oldest family-run acoustic stringed instrument store in the United States. ... In her young adult years, Kim drifted away from the family ...

Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the ’60s Greenwich Village scene to become a legend of outsider folk music, has died. His family issued a statement confirming the death to ...

“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music, which could end up becoming a part of the new U2 album. We’re not sure yet; we’ll see,” the guitarist said.