Aria Entertainment and KT Producing have announced the full cast for Ballad Lines, a new folk musical by Finn Anderson and ...

The Decemberists team up with English singer Olivia Chaney to perform gorgeous British folk ballads. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still ...

Paul Gwynne Phillips performs traditional songs from the British Isles which he learned mostly from hearing them sung in pubs or by acquaintances. - 1964 ...

British singer/songwriter Richard Thompson has a new box set of live performances, outtakes, and previously unreleased material. The 5-disc set, The Life and Music of Richard Thompson, was built from ...

British folklore is populated with loveable rogues and duelling knights. King Arthur capered around the isles brandishing Excalibur, his legendary sword. Robin Hood and his band of outlaws skulked ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...