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 ...
Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...
Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an important part in protests, from Woody Guthrie to Bad Bunny. So it’s not a ...
Brian Wilson Was So “Obsessed” With This American Folk Song That It Even Made Iggy Pop Uncomfortable
Even taking into account his piano room full of sand, Brian Wilson was a schoolboy compared to the self-destructive, ever-shirtless former Stooges frontman Iggy Pop. But according to multiple ...
Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
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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 ...
“I fell in love with it the moment I heard it,” said Judy Collins of a song written by Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer Rolf Peter Kempf. After moving from Toronto to Los Angeles to pursue ...
On Saturday March 14, Dougie MacLean will continue the celebration of his long and vibrant 50 years as a singer-songwriter and inspired performer with his concert during the St Patrick’s Music ...
Last week, Pittsboro singer-songwriter Joseph Terrell uploaded a new song to social media. Titled “Genuine American Hero,” the folk protest song is written in the style of John Prine or Phil Ochs and ...
On January 23, the Ice Dance Free Dance event concluded at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2026 at Beijing’s National Indoor Stadium. Three Chinese pairs—Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, ...
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