Robert Vincent has been called the Scouse Springsteen but in fact he’s vastly more than that. Although his Americana-drenched compositions bow to the Boss, t...

There is at least one guitar hero for every kind of popular music - folk legend Richard Thompson, bluesman Buddy Guy or jazz giant Wes Montgomery, to name j...

Fifty years ago Nick Harper was a four-year-old boy living with his parents in a one-bedroom flat at 58 Fordwych Road in Kilburn. But this was no ordinary ho...

Great jazz musicians seem to have an almost telepathic understanding with their bandmates. And when, as in the case of Zoe and Idris Rahman, those bandmates ...

Traditional folk music, American blues and organ-driven jazz all on the same bill in the lovely surroundings of Mycenae House gardens - what’s not to love? T...

Singer-songwriter Chris Wood is not only a great musician, he’s also one of our greatest ever lyricists. His ear for the sort of minutiae that fills even our...

Pound for pound, folk music has more than its fair share of virtuosi - but can sometimes come across as rather worthy, a strange backwater populated by puris...

Dennis Greaves is a stunningly good guitarist and his Nine Below Zero bandmate Mark Feltham is surely one of the world’s greatest harmonica players, so watch...

It’s a measure of the status of Art Themen in the pantheon of British jazz musicians that fellow artists will turn out to watch him at work wherever he plays...

Harp-playing bards were once so influential in Ireland that Elizabeth I notoriously ordered the island’s governor: “Hang the harpers wherever found and destr...