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 ...

Whitchurch Folk Festival is back for another spectacular year, bringing world-class folk artists, Morris dancing, interactive ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

British artists failed to appear in the year-end global charts for the first time in 20 years (Picture: Dana Jacobs/FilmMagic) It seems the music industry has hit a point of crisis for British ...