Offa Rex -- a transatlantic collaboration of the English singer Olivia Chaney and the American indie rock band The Decemberists -- is putting a modern twist on traditional folk songs that were ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

Folk icon Martin Carthy recalls meeting Bob Dylan in 1962 and how the young singer’s first London gig 'disappointed a lot of ...

Some stories stand the test of time: Shakespeare's plays, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the Child ballads. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're not for children. They're Scottish and ...

A woman who sang old English ballads and folk songs that were among the earliest preserved in western North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker. The N.C.

Be prepared to sing along at Saturday night's uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series when John Roberts and Tony Barrand, who share a distinctly British accent, harmony, and sense of humor, bring their music ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

When Robert Plant announced at the end of Monday night’s “Austin City Limits” taping at ACL Live that he and his Sensational Space Shifters would close with “an old English folk song,” the crowd ...