Folk music fans will get free access to more than 58,000 items under an innovative project to create the world's biggest digital archive of English traditional music and dance tunes. 'The Full English ...

Instrumental acts such as Spiro and Leveret are part of a new wave of folk musicians breathing new life into England’s ancient folk tunes Set against Scotland’s unbroken and thriving tradition and the ...

IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

Offa Rex -- a transatlantic collaboration of the English singer Olivia Chaney and the American indie rock band The Decemberists -- is putting a modern twist on traditional folk songs that were ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

Rachel and Becky Unthank (yes, that's their given name) grew up living and breathing folk music in England's Northumberland County -- their parents, both singers, were active performers, and as the ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

How confidently could you define folk music? Such is the staggering range of songs that can be attributed to this disparate art form in 2012, that “not very” is a valid response. It’s no surprise ...

Stephen Sedley is a retired Appeal Court judge and former visiting professor of law at Oxford University. During his time as a QC, he specialised in human rights cases and in judicial review, and he ...