British folk music had a golden era in the 1960s and early '70s. But in certain musical circles lately, it's been experiencing a renaissance. Spin magazine writer and critic Will Hermes takes a look ...

Looking back on the political output of folk singer Ewan MacColl, who wrote protest songs for the Communist Party of Great Britain back in the 1950s and 1960s.

With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. By Jim Farber Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in ...

On a sunny March morning in Bunhill Fields, a burial ground in central London, broadcaster Zakia Sewell is musing over ...

Labi Siffre, the 80-year-old British folk singer, has announced his first new album in 28 years. Siffre is making a comeback with his aptly titled upcoming album, Unfinished Business, out later this ...

Considered by some as British folk music's finest ambassadors, Brian Peters, who will appear at the uNi Coffeehouse in Springfield on Saturday, is a performer of traditional folk music who combines a ...

There are certain plusses and minuses to enduring our current post-pandemic lockdown in the idyllic British countryside, claims legendary folksinger Shirley Collins, from her cottage hideaway in the ...

Veteran British folk artist and singer/songwriter Ralph McTell celebrated his 80th birthday on December 3. Although not a household name in the U.S., McTell has had a long, prolific, and influential ...

On their second record Please to See the King, from 1971, Steeleye Span set sparse arrangements to their electrified takes on traditional songs. The result is unlike anything else. In points, it’s ...