Skiffle emerged as a popular genre. It was a British take on American jazz, blues and folk music. One of the most famous skiffle artists was Lonnie Donegan. The Beatles also began as a skiffle ...

With music from artists including Bob Dylan ... What is great about British Folk and has it changed in your opinion? In the 60s I was a regular at Gregson's Well pub in Liverpool where The ...

In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from the roots to the avant ... Convention release Liege And Lief, the first British Folk Rock album. Most of the songsare ...

Read about the traditonal instruments of Wales, the history of the music, and the modern artists influenced by Wales' heritage. What are these? All the latest folk highlights, news and reviews on ...

Sometimes it takes a foreign source to represent your own music back to ... from a huge spectrum of artists"." The post British compilation relives America's 1960s folk rock boom appeared first ...

Bill Fay, the British cult folk singer-songwriter ... He would go decades without recording music again.

Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter whose music was later championed by artists like Jeff Tweedy ... after inactivity — confirmed the folk artist’s death on social media Saturday.

U.K. artists like Myles Smith and Sam Fender have argued that government support for music education is declining. Experts weigh in on their claims.

Folk music legend Peggy Seeger has endorsed a series of podcasts celebrating the 60th anniversary of a North East town.

Roskilde Festival has unveiled 27 new artists for this year’s lineup, featuring groundbreaking acts such as British producer ... Festival’s Head of Music, Thomas Sønderby Jepsen. Pioneers and ...

could be replaced with British folk music. Rule, Britannia! originates from the poem of the same name by Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson, and was set to music by English composer Thomas ...