Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose ” skiffle ” sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Sunday in Peterborough, central England, while on a tour of Britain, publicist ...

Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Van Morrison would hang out at his local record shop, Atlantic Records, and consume all the early 20th century blues, jazz, and folk from the likes of Jelly ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by ...

Van Morrison's life-long love of skiffle music dates back to childhood, first hearing Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton in Belfast's record store Atlantic Records, and then forming his first skiffle ...

Traumatized communities and a cratered economy: That’s what many teens of today face mid-pandemic. It’s also what many young people faced in England, post-World War II. British teenagers at the time ...

U.K. musician Billy Bragg is widely known for his long career in music and activism, which includes a blend of grassroots forms, such as punk rock, folk music, protest music, and heritage traditions.

The craze for skiffle music in Britain lasted for only two years, from 1956 to 1958, but this invigorating blend of American folk, jazz and blues, which grew out of the traditional jazz revival in ...

Tradition gets a bold, rhythmic twist when the Old Goat Skiffle Band brings their high-energy sound to Madden’s Irish Pub, from 6-9 p.m. June 14. Blending rich harmonies, heartfelt storytelling, and ...

Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to ...