Offa Rex -- a transatlantic collaboration of the English singer Olivia Chaney and the American indie rock band The Decemberists -- is putting a modern twist on traditional folk songs that were ...

IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

Be prepared to sing along at Saturday night's uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series when John Roberts and Tony Barrand, who share a distinctly British accent, harmony, and sense of humor, bring their music ...

Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

When Robert Plant announced at the end of Monday night’s “Austin City Limits” taping at ACL Live that he and his Sensational Space Shifters would close with “an old English folk song,” the crowd ...