Penned by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788, Burns confessed that he had gathered the words after hearing an old man recite ...

A heavy rock song based on an old Lancashire folk lore story with grim twist has been released. Snorting Pig have written and ...

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

"It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all" ...

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The UK’s official Christmas number one race kicks off today, and among the hopefuls is the charity single Lullaby – a reworking of a Palestinian folk song. Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Neneh Cherry and ...

Bob Dylan didn’t much care for the term, or at least he didn’t want his music to be associated with it. But folk rock undeniably made a massive impact on the music scene in the mid-60s, with sensitive ...

Muse will perform in South Africa in 2026 as part of the Calabash music festival. The trio has been active since the mid-1990s and has released nine albums to date. Here is a look at some of the ...

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I’m not a horse girl. I've ran in the opposite direction on the rare occasion police ride them down Oxford Street, and the idea of leaving London for a countryside retreat is unimaginable. So really I ...

Proposals to increase the size of a gypsy and traveller site in a West Sussex village have been given the go-ahead – despite opposition from local councils and residents. A planning application to ...