Searching for the Old Folk Rebels

Tom Cole ’s ‘The Road Less Travelled’ is a showcase of some his newest self-penned material plus reworkings of a couple of songs that have...

by Neil Partrick Ian Dobson has been a folk music performer, gig organiser and sound engineer for more than half a century. While for muc...

I have raved about this singer-songwriter before and will no doubt do so again.  Tom Cole  recently played to a mostly disinterested bunch ...

I’ve never had a guitar lesson in my life, said Alan King, as he spent two hours musically extrapolating on western and Indian music and t...

Award-winning American acoustic musician and song-writer Doug MacLeod stayed in the tiny East Sussex village of Crowhurst on Tuesday and...

“Is this a supergroup?” asked a friend of mine as we took our places last night in the third row of this tiny,  historic , yet barely half...

Pete Sadler was the reason I started the ‘Searching for the Old Folk Rebels’ blog and research project. On reading ‘Singing from the Floor...