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 ...

Bob Dylan's appearance drew gasps at tribute to English folk hero' - 5/5 Barney Whittaker re[orts on a remarkable event ...

In a world where some argue that mankind has totally abandoned tradition while others profess that tradition is what is holding us back, Neil Luck and Mimi Doulton demonstrate that it is possible to ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings have been handed down over centuries and traveled across oceans. And now at age 85, the woman who has been called the first lady of English folk music has a new ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

Quite a long time in the making the slightly dubiously named 'Full English' (cheesy name for real ale?) archive is now online. Charting the development of English folk music in the 20th Century this ...

Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because “we can find something we can call music in every society,” says musicologist Yuto Ozaki of Keio University in Tokyo. But did singing ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. You’re probably familiar with the concept of evolution. Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are ...