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"Even in America, there are people just discovering the band from four years ago or something. So we're lucky to have a ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights ...

Folk & Acoustic Music Michael Stock has been hosting “Folk & Acoustic Music” on WLRN, South Florida Public Radio for over 30 years. Michael was introduced to folk music back in high school ...

Sarah will be joined by special guests - harpist Mared Pugh-Evans, the current official harpist to His Majesty the King, and Welsh folk duo Filkin's Drift - for a programme exploring music ...

Organisers are looking to next year's milestone, with the National Folk Festival to celebrate 60 years of music and dancing. Thousands of people have turned out in Canberra for a feast of music ...

A well-known Welsh restaurant has been damaged, after a major fire broke out on Friday evening. Emergency services were called to the Fork and Fire on Brecon Road near Nevill Hall Hospital ...

Medici on 57th and Ali’s on 63rd — were all part of the folk revival movement. From the end of the 1950s through the early 1970s, acoustic music and songs from rural areas became popular with ...

A Welsh band is celebrating after achieving their ... "Our dream has turned reality, our band is now permanently etched in music history and its something that cannot be taken from us as we ...

Music will return to Royal Athletic Park this summer when the Victoria Folk Music Festival stages its inaugural edition on July 5. The one-day event is headlined by ex-Be Good Tanyas singer Frazey ...

Check it out below. Salmanzadeh and Sheeran wrote ‘Azizam’ after realising how much Persian and Irish folk music have in common, and how the latter could set those influences in a pop context.