The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the English Folk Dance Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in 1898, was ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

For those who lived in medieval times and relied on the harvest to survive, traditional music had a ritualistic role: it was part of the magic to ward off their fear that the world could simply end.

An oral tradition, folk music was a way for the illiterate masses to pass down stories of war, hardship and the struggle to survive everyday life from generation to generation. Every culture has its ...

For the last 15 years, English folk musician Olivia Chaney has done a little bit of everything. She performed as a vocalist with the electronic-pop group Zero 7, and alongside the acclaimed Kronos ...

Catching up with London's Goblin Band, vocalist and hurdy-gurdy player Rowan Gatherer tell us the one record we must hear ...

Camden's Cecil Sharp House has been questioning the very notion of what traditional British music means in the multicultural 21st Century. "Hip-hop is the folk dance of today," said Natasha Khamjani, ...