Along with dancing, telling stories and reciting poetry, song singing is a key part of traditional céilidhs. Songs known as mouth music (puirt-a-beul) provided accompaniment for the dancing of ...

The Scottish band Breabach combines traditional instruments, singing and dancing. The music in this clip can be identified as Scottish by the choice of instruments (Highland bagpipe and flute ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

One of Scotland's most popular traditional music festivals has unveiled the final additions to its 2025 lineup. The Reeling Festival, Glasgow's summer celebration of Scottish contemporary folk music, ...

English song attributed to King Henry VIII, “Greensleeves,” was sung by a men’s ensemble of Chris Collins, Dwaine Hubbard, ...