Though the term “folk music” goes back to the mid-19th century, its modern coinage typically refers to the post-war folk revivals in England and America—though it can also describe any indigenous ...

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

Martin Carthy once believed Paul Simon had stolen his 'Scarborough Fair' arrangement. Decades later, the folk legend says he ...

A bedrock of the idiosyncratic British group Pentangle, he went on to play with a host of luminaries, including Roy Orbison, ...

Folk music, of course, has a long history in pubs: Bert Lloyd, musician and collector of folk songs, recorded singers at the Eel’s Foot pub in Eastbridge, Suffolk, in the years before the Second World ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Provided/PR Chris Brain is a folk singer from Leeds, whose latest album, New Light, and ...

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

Vulnerable, poetic and sonically heart-wrenching, two musicians’ bittersweet folktale doubles as an homage to music itself.

Perhaps fittingly for a radio host with a legendary self-effacing delivery, Dick Pleasants began his on-air career on a small scale at the age of 10 by reaching out through the airwaves to his ...