Sharon Shannon has music at her fingertips... literally. One of the biggest names in Irish traditional music, Jenny Lee chats to the world-renowned accordionist about her musical roots, Shane MacGowan ...

But don’t sleep on the other major festival coming up next week: Lafayette’s Festival International de Louisiane. This year’s ...

Absent from rock for years before the Fabs used them, dual lead lines would eventually be embraced by 1970s guitarists ...

Brian Eno, one of the all-time great art-music legends, is now 76 years old, and he’s not slowing down one bit. If anything, he’s busier now than ever. Eno, an experimental generative film about the ...

Expect tracks from the whole of her back catalogue, including songs from the latest album, Joan of All ... from the Americana into something a little more nu-folk. Having been the vocalist in Irish ...

That post offered a bit more insight into the release plan of these tracks, suggesting that they’re the first three songs on the album and its accompanying film. “Reinforcing the project’s ...

A folk-song festival will take place in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday, drawing nearly 200 singers from art troupes across the country. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A folk ...

March 31 (UPI) --Miley Cyrus is back with new music. The actress and singer, 32, released "Prelude," the first track from her upcoming album, Something Beautiful, which is due May 30. In the ...

As nu-folk figureheads, Mumford & Sons helped set ... Rushmere is an old-school Mumford & Sons album that might just give the band a new beginning. It’s not going to win many new listeners.

Same thing happened to me with bluegrass. Same thing happened to me with Irish music. All this folk music, somehow it's connected.” Linhardt and Nepali then lead us in a jam. I do my best to ...

Amy Irving, the Oscar-nominated star of classics like Carrie, Yentl, Crossing Delancey and Traffic, is on a new adventure with her budding music career. Her upcoming second album, Always Will Be ...

Now a trio, Mumford & Sons are back with their fifth studio album and first in nearly seven years, “Rushmere.” It’s a familiar-feeling record — of course there are banjos — with instantly recognizable ...