Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy presents this four-part series charting the rise of British folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today.

The British group formed in 2007 with singer/guitarist/drummer Marcus Mumford ... It was around then that the London folk scene saw the rise of other traditional artists such as Laura Marling ...

A cause of death has yet to be revealed. Faithfull was born in the Hampstead area of North London, the daughter of an Austrian aristocrat and a British intelligence officer. Starting a career as a ...

Elizabeth Cotten helped to define folk music over a century ago. Her album Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes was written in the early 1900s when Cotten was a teenager, but ...

Marianne Faithfull's first hit, "As Tears Go By," was recorded when she was just 17 years old after she met with the manager ...

could be replaced with British folk music. Rule, Britannia! originates from the poem of the same name by Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson, and was set to music by English composer Thomas ...

In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from the roots to the avant ... Convention release Liege And Lief, the first British Folk Rock album. Most of the songsare ...