As a celebration marking the first day of summer, May Day's traditions are rooted in pagan festivals. The Morris dancing ...

I met this guy in the middle of a shopping arcade…” Dawn Terry laughs as she remembers sourcing the Ukrainian lira – the imposing hurdy-gurdy adjacent instrument – that has (alongside the accordion) ...

Death & the Fool feels like it borrows from centuries far removed by our own, its folkloric quality imbuing it with a ...

Crack session musician, in-demand producer, one quarter of the world’s biggest rock band – ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul ...

Folkd rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch ...

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Patrick Clarke speaks to Eliza Carthy and reviews 10 essential new LPs – from hypnotic Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the ...

Martin Simpson is, simply, one of the greatest folk guitarists of all time. Nominated for 30-odd BBC Folk Awards, and winner of plenty of those, he was at the vanguard of the 70s folk revival and ...

Chris Arundel / BBC An opened hurdy-gurdy, an instrument played by cranking a wheel which plays the strings like a violin bow, sometimes featured in traditional folk music Mr Frost said Morris ...

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