Aer Lingus representatives, Music City Irish Fest's CEO Brenda Willis, Irish musician Niall McCabe highlight long ties ...

Originating in Scotland, it was modified by Irish singer Francis McPeake and later sung by artists such as Bob Dylan and Judy ...

Also this week: One of Toronto's biggest summer music ... many folk festivals, the RFF is a non-profit. The festival has programmed some of Canada’s best-loved and most acclaimed artists ...

Meet the buzzy folk-pop songwriter, plus a dancey noise band, a dexterous Dominican M.C., a new generation of SoundCloud rappers and more.

It’s there too, in abundance, in the emerging artists who have ... “Are the English unique in their stubborn ability to reject their folk music?” she asked, spurred by her father’s ...

Mumford & Sons will release their fifth album Rushmere on March 28. The title shares its name with a pond in southwest London where the band formed. After a seven-year break between albums and a solo ...

Irish folk music has played a significant ... fostered an authentic work ethic that maintains itself in music that, when played like artists like McCabe, reflects intricate, nuanced and reflective ...

Bill Fay, the British cult folk singer-songwriter ... He would go decades without recording music again.

Kerry alternative-folk singer Junior Brother has officially signed with a record label founded by Pete Doherty of famed English rock band The Libertines.