The Official Charts Company (OCC) has announced it will launch its first Official Folk Albums Chart.
In partnership with English Folk Expo’s Manchester Folk Festival, and with support from Showcase ...
Apple Music has announced the latest addition to its Up Next series as Natanael Cano.
Cano is a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Mexico has been writing songs since he was gifted ...
The nominees for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 have been announced by Mark Radcliffe on the Radio 2 Folk Show.
Radcliffe (pictured) will present the ceremony, ...
Music Week's round-up of the latest album reissues and catalogue releases, including Trojan, English folk rock and the songs of Leonard Cohen...
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Before Meghann Loney, Emillie Key and Beth Key became known as Wildwood Kin - the hottest new UK folk act in years - they were something else. “We’re family,” beams ...
Cambridge Folk Festival has announced plans to twin with its US counterpart the Newport Folk Festival, immortalised as the site where Bob Dylan first "went electric" in 1965.
Newport played ...
Kris Drever, The Furrow Collective and Songs Of Separation were among the winners at the 18th BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards last night (April 5).
Drever won Folk Singer Of ...
Jeff Smith, head of music for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, has backed Radio 2’s ability to help folk artists cross over into the mainstream.
Speaking in the new ...
BBC Radio 2 has announced details of its 2017 Folk Awards.
Mark Radcliffe, who presents the station’s Folk Show, made the announcement today (February 6) on Simon Mayo’s programme. The ...