The Glamour Cave

After a perusal of the folk awards nominations  pages on the BBC website it's a treat to discover that the corporation has done exactly...

After yesterday's post about the all-party folk arts group at the House of Commons, in which it was suggested that English and Welsh fo...

There was something about the actor Stephen Mangan that had been bothering me since I saw Green Wing on television. Then when  Episodes  st...

The skies over east Devon and Dorset disgorged an entire month's worth of water on to Abbotsbury and the surrounding area on Friday nigh...

"She lost her heart to the boys in the band" runs the opening line of Show of Hands'  Stop Copying Me . On Saturday at Colston...

Richard Shindell is in the UK supporting Show of Hands for three weeks .  They kicked off on Tuesday in Salisbury and I found myself pushing...

I was talking to an independent film-maker called Nigel Buck (see his showreel here  -  warning, it may make you feel you've chosen the ...

Hatfield House is half an hour from King's Cross by rail and it was a beautiful Sunday, so a one-day folk festival - the fourth of its n...

OK. Someone calling themselves The FLK, who wear cow-head masks and generally go to some trouble to hide their identities, set fire to a sta...

There's a thread on Mumsnet, which began posting a week ago, asking if  folk music's sexist ? Click on the link to have a look. It...

Not knowing Bristol, I'd imagined a red brick stately home built by a prosperous slave trader back in the day. In fact Colston Hall is ...

St George's Day falls on a Saturday this year and the piece of my soul that will be forever England takes a certain satisfaction in this...

"Lilly white hands", "pretty fair maids", "milk white steeds"... Please join in when you think you know the ch...