British folk-rocker Dolly Mavies has addressed the recent debacle that ensued after she walked out of her own gig last month due to the presence of U.S. Vice President JD Vance. The singer-songwriter, ...

Danny Thompson, a founding member of British folk rock band Pentangle, has died at the age of 86. The legendary folk rock bass player is known for his work with music luminaries like Kate Bush, John ...

British folk singer Maddy Prior co-founded Steeleye Span in 1969 and rose to fame as the band’s talented lead vocalist. She’s now regarded as one of folk’s leading lights and has enjoyed a varied solo ...

Folk musician and former BBC Scotland presenter Archie Fisher has died at the age of 86. The singer, songwriter and guitarist had presented BBC Radio Scotland's Travelling Folk from 1983 to 2010.

In 2019, Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The compilation album Strangers in the Room: A Journey Through the British ...

A renowned British folk duo is set to perform in Wigton this autumn. Chris While and Julie Matthews, known as the longest-lasting female duo in Britain, have announced an autumn UK tour which includes ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Fiddle player and songwriter Bella Hardy has been in the vanguard of the British folk revival of the last few years, with six albums under her belt and numerous award nominations, ...

Despite folk music’s association with protest there is a perception that its performers and audiences are overwhelmingly white. However folk music is rooted in diverse working-class communities and ...

Bert Jansch, a Scottish-born guitarist and singer whose bluesy, craggy-voiced and emotive style influenced entertainers as varied as Neil Young and the rock band Oasis and whose work in the quintet ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...