An American folk ballad is a narrative song passed down orally through generations, typically telling stories of love, tragedy, adventure, or historical events. It often features simple language, ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast's Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison's 2016 supreme deep cut "Going Down to Bangor," Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history - ...

For generations, tales of African-American life have been told through a musical genre known as black ballads. A new CD, Classic African-American Ballads, is reviving this part of black musical ...

Soon after I first listened to Bob Dylan’s intense new album, Tempest, a friend who’d also heard it wanted to know what a historian made of its line, early on, about the British burning down the White ...

A new album from Alison McMorland presents 12 traditional ballads as they have never been heard in modern times, writes Jim Gilchrist With its elemental tales of dire deeds and grim comeuppances, ...

Co-created by award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Finn Anderson (Islander, Streets) and award-winning director Tania Azevedo (&Juliet, But I’m a Cheerleader), Ballad Lines (previously A Mother’s ...

After the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that claimed 22 lives, many residents mourned through music. Singer-songwriter Josue Rodriguez helped his community cope by writing a corrido. After the mass ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...