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

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 ...

Visitors to Un/Common People will also experience a new folk song and story map, reimagining five traditional regional folk ...

Back in the mid-1960s especially, as the new folk-rock scene was blossoming, Lennon was paying attention, enamoured by the sound and playing one song in particular on repeat. Lennon’s love for folk in ...

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

Artwork by people over time is on display - like a picture made from tiny seeds, 20 different kinds, including poppy, ...

For Folk's sake The second offering from Ascension on Wax sees label co-founder Lavan dropping four tracks of gently ...

The Edge has revealed U2 are recording "sci-fi Irish folk music" with Brian Eno. The guitarist, real name David Evans, made ...

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 ...

Popular folk favourites The Sorries will be live in concert in Castle Douglas on Saturday. The pair, Douglas Kay and Martin ...

The British invasion was a time of change in popular culture, but people only ever talk about the men. Let's have a look at ...

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years ...