Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

Swedish indie folk singer Sarah Klang's voice has the rare ability to blend hope and sadness into one, writes The Associated ...

A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, including a toddler ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English ... the second most (with eight), followed by German (three), French and Italian (two each ...

Róise, who was also known as Róise na nAmhrán, passed on a rich heritage of folk music and preserved many songs that would otherwise have been lost, but have now travelled far beyond her home ...

Then I had a third thought, maybe she just really likes bananas, at which point I realised that the author of the song ‘Both Sides, Now’ had just Both Sides Now’d me.” Meaning, she had ...

The Cambridge Folk Festival, the world-famous, four-day folk and roots music festival held annually on the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cambridge since 1965, will not take place in 2025 and will ...

With the release of the Timothée Chalamet Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown upon us, here are the singer-songwriter's most powerful lyrics. Bob Dylan's early songs are like a diary of the USA ...

"We know how dear the folk festival is to so many, and the impact it has on all those working in the music industry," said Cambridge City Council One of the oldest and most prestigious folk ...

The 2025 Cambridge Folk Festival has been cancelled, organisers announced on Friday (January 17). The four-day event, organised by Cambridge City Council, has been running since 1965. The festival ...

“Hope is that any new German government would decide on a longer-term plan for economic reforms and investments,” Brzeski wrote in a note. The troubles facing the German economy are captured ...