The Song That Shaped Me: Macdara Yeates Book for Trad Night: Macdara Yeates, 4 November I first encountered ‘Alexander’ (Roud number 6247) as a fuzzy field recording of Frank Harte. Field recordings c...

YouTube video by English Folk Dance and Song Society

Britain contains a large and highly evolved repertoire of traditional song covering a variety of genres – from ballads and comic songs to work songs and ceremonial songs – as well as a wealth of singi...

Steve Turner The song that shaped me: Cane on the Brazos Book for Trad Night: Steve Turner "When I first became interested in folk music, and learnt to play the guitar (inspired by Bob Dylan) in ...

From KOKO's dramatic post-fire rebuild to a boozy pottery-painting session, here's our guide to the best things to do in Camden.

Ahead of their UK tour, three members of the Québécois folk group – Olivier, Réjean and Nicolas – spoke to Songlines' Alexandra Petropoulos about tradition,...

A 20-disc BBC collection charts Martin Carthy’s extraordinary career, from solo performances andtofamily collaborations and beyond

Across her debut, “The Knife, The Needle”, Elanor Moss forms hauntingly beautiful songs with a scalpel blade, exposing the soft tissue of human emotion with unerring accuracy.

Masterful concertina accompaniments, banjo tunes and one of the finest voices on the folk scene.

(Real World)Leaning on their Hebridean heritage, the duo meld 10th-century Celtic cantos with distortion, dream-pop and post-rock, with shades of Twin Peaks and Boards of Canada

A live celebration of Nic Jones’ music, performed by BBC Folk Award winner Sam Carter.

Elanor Moss shares “Fixer”, the final single from debut album “The Knife, The Needle”, out 21st August on Merge, with a video by H. Hawkline.

The Alan James Creative Bursary:Residency and Research Programmes, aim to support artists exploring new creative ideas inspired by and sourced from traditional folk music relating to England. Now in i...

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