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November 7, 2023
The founder of Arhoolie Records photographed and recorded musicians across the U.S., from stages and front porches to studios and backyard parties
October 12, 2023
Featuring handpicked songs and notable guests, this collection features 13 Appalachian folk ballads sourced from the works of singers Mary Sands and Jane Gentry.
September 26, 2023
What do the weird and wonderful words of our best-known Christmas carols actually mean? Andrew Stewart looks into some popular Christmas carol lyrics
September 25, 2023
Folk artists Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz combine to offer a real oldies collection, with ballads that date back generations and have roots on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s music that still resonates today, as shown in these compelling new interpretations by Simpson and Jutz. “Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry” will be released Friday.
September 25, 2023
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September 8, 2023
The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has said the Last Night of the Proms should showcase English folk music rather than Rule Britannia.
September 7, 2023
...at the Schubertiade. This festival in Austria is the sort of thing that would face the chop in Britain. It should be cherished
September 1, 2023
In putting together their new album Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs Of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry, Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz and his latest trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson, knew for a fact that they weren’t the only musicians who’d long obsessed over Cecil Sharp’s “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians” collection.
August 4, 2023
When Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz got together with his latest trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson, the pair bonded over their long-running obsession with Cecil Sharp’s 1916 and 1918 collection, “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians;” particularly those tunes from singers Mary Sands and Jane Gentry.