It was around then that the London folk scene saw ... copies across the UK and America earning them Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song.

Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy presents this four-part series charting the rise of British folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today. With music ...

Folk and folk rock bands are responsible for some of the most progressive music ever made. Not only that, but they influenced ...

Richard and Linda Thompson are the second and third. Richard Thompson co-founded the seminal British folk outfit Fairport Convention in the ‘60s before leaving to pursue a solo career in the early ...

The Carthy family has long been a fixture of the UK folk music scene, with Martin Carthy twice winning BBC Radio 2's Folk Singer of the Year Award. A plaque to the late Lal Waterson, Norma's ...

Bristol favourite Gaz Brookfield gets all Christmasy at The Fleece on December 7. A brilliant singer-songwriter, he’s strummy and heartfelt, funny and clever, and he has a heap of songs that are ...

Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly ...