At 87, Collins has given herself entirely to this work of ensuring the vitality of English folk music. Archangel Hill is her newest album and the third since ending a 38-year period of what she ...

Hester’s contributions to the folk music scene have been significant, and her influence continues to be recognized. Known for traditional English folk songs. Shirley Collins is a pivotal figure ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The great English folk singer, song collector and historian of the working classes, Shirley Collins, will not stand on ceremony.

At the heart of this progressive movement is the Cecil Sharp House, a music venue and folk arts centre that's home to the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and where Folk Dance Remixed ...

I met Johnny Campbell, one of the several artists on our Scotland trip, last June. He performs old English folk tunes as well as self-penned originals with heartfelt passion and woven with an ...

These are meaningful songs and good music." Although Billy Bragg, a folk-punk artist from Great Britain, has been coming to the U.S. for 40 years, he’s never been to Greensburg — before this week.

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of English folk music and maybe thoughts come to mind of villagers lamenting lost loves or sailors bellowing tales of adventure at sea. But when the ...

Country a cappella group Home Free and folk sea shanty band The Longest Johns are bringing their spirited traditional sounds ...

renditions of English and American midwinter folk songs. Nowell Sing We Clear’s albums evoke a bygone, somewhat mythical era of obscure rituals and community music-making. “The soundtrack of ...

This is called learning music orally. Folk music exists all around the world. For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on.