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Folk music

August 2024

  • John White, aged 101, in musical hall mode in 2019 at Sharp’s folk club, London, which he had helped found 31 years earlier

    Other lives
    John White obituary

  • John Foreman

    Other lives
    John Foreman obituary

  • Paris Paloma

    One to watch
    One to watch: Paris Paloma

  • Morris Men perform on the seafront at Sidmouth during the Folk Week Festival in august 2021.

    Time to celebrate all our wonderful folk music festivals

July 2024

  • The Maestros in Fusion ensemble.

    Maestros in Fusion review – virtuosic Indian ensemble knit two traditions together

  • Heather Wood with Royston Wood, left, and Peter Bellamy at a photo session for the 1967 Young Tradition LP So Cheerfully Round.

    Heather Wood obituary

  • Robert Plant Cambridge Folk Festival 2024

    Cambridge folk festival review – Robert Plant thrills, Peggy Seeger inspires and Oysterband rock

  • Tightly choreographed … Sampa the Great on stage at Womad.

    Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans

  • ‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

  • Folk album of the month
    Raphael Rogiński: Žaltys review – hypnotic eastern European folk

  • Joe Egan obituary

  • Artist of the week
    Arooj Aftab review – crackling wit and songs of elegiac beauty

  • ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

  • ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

June 2024

  • Drama and delicacy … Peiriant’s Dan and Rose Linn-Pearl.

    Folk album of the month
    Peiriant: Dychwelyd review – iridescent soundscapes summon spirit of the mountains

    Violinist Rose Linn-Pearl and sound artist husband Dan weave their artistry into a vivid collection evoking the natural wonders of their Welsh home
  • Linda Thompson seated with an acoustic guitar

    Linda Thompson: Proxy Music review – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

    The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great

    • Daniel Kramer obituary

    • The Zawose Queens: Maisha review – vocal power and family stories

    • One to watch
      One to watch: Tiny Habits

May 2024

  • Richard Thompson holding an electric guitar

    Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore review – another collection of beautifully gruelling material

    Life gives more grist to the mill of the veteran singer-songwriter, whose guitar playing remains as eloquent as ever
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