Imagine being a singer — in this case, a singer of traditional British folk songs and murder ballads, songs of love, hate, revenge, redemption and tragedy. And as the singer of these songs, you get ...

IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...

101 Did You Ever See? / Guitar. 102 Queen Jane (Child 170) / Guitar. 103 McPherson's Lament / Guitar. 103 Johnson's Motorcar / Guitar. 104 Bold English Navvy / Guitar. 105 Barnyards of Delgaty / ...

The Appalachian region was, in the early days of the United States, a melting pot of cultures unto itself. Irish and Scottish immigrants carved a life out of the hills and hollers of the mountains.

In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...

Shirley Collins was a huge part of the British folk scene — but for a time, heartbreak silenced her voice. We talk with her and The... After 38 Years Of Silence, A Legend Of Folk Music Sings After 38 ...