Any gig featuring a true virtuoso is going to be a treat. But sometimes the musical virtuosity is mirrored by a gift for story-telling...

Robert Vincent has been called the Scouse Springsteen but in fact he’s vastly more than that. Although his Americana-drenched...

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

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...

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

Traditional folk music, American blues and organ-driven jazz all on the same bill in the lovely surroundings of Mycenae House gardens -...

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...

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

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

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...

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