Seven-piece Broken Records formed December 2006 in Edinburgh, creating a sound combining traditional European folk with ...

The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived ... Norm heard a modem Polish polka sound firmly grounded in the Polish folk music familiar to him from house parties and weddings.

An oral tradition, folk music was a way for the illiterate masses to pass down stories of war, hardship and the struggle to survive everyday life from generation to generation. Every culture has ...

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 ...

Gracie Abrams fans recently petitioned to get Dora Jar replaced as the opening act for Abrams’ European tour, alleging that ...

Fran & Flora are a London based contemporary eastern-European folk music inspired violin and cello duo with a distinctive intimate performance style. Their debut album ‘unfurl’ was ...

Late at night they wander the streets telling tales of home playing music for food and booze. When they corner an audience in a dark alley they play a fusion of eastern european folk music with ...

The band has been together since 1978 and was started by Jon Swayne, a bagpipe maker who has lived in Baltonsborough since the 1980s.