Offa Rex, a new group composed of The Decemberists and Olivia Chaney (center), reimagines traditional English folk music on The Queen Of Hearts. One thing led to another, and eventually Chaney joined ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...

Carthy wears his considerable history lightly. His album was reflective without being nostalgic or complacent, building on a lifetime’s commitment to the performance and interpretation of traditional ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings have been handed down over centuries and traveled across oceans. And now at age 85, the woman who has been called the first lady of English folk music has a new ...

ROB HARBRON: The interplay, the handing stuff over to the other player. We’ve never agreed a chord, they just seem to fit. No one has a fixed part. And without any discussion it seems to work straight ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am sceptical about awards. One of my favourite things about writing for The ...