Guardian Music — Folk singer Jon Boden plans to record a song a day for a year and post it online. But his real aim is to get us all to sing out loud together – in tune or notA few weeks ago Jon Boden, the current BBC Folk Singer of the Year, went to a friend's hom... more info

Guardian Music — Folk Against Fascism, EnglandFounded to counter the BNP's attempts to appropriate English folk music, Folk Against Fascism now ups its profile with events for both folk purists and the folk-curious. London's Southbank has the Oyster Band and Bellowhe... more info

Guardian Music — The day I told BNP Ian to get lostLast week I got involved in a brief internet spat with someone who tweeted under the winning name of BNP Ian. He was claiming to be a promoter on the dubstep scene, a product of precisely the kind of multiculturalism... more info

Time Out, London — New telling of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge classic poem by Bellowhead, the ever excellent and exhilarating folk big band more info

Guardian Music — (Fledg'ling)The best traditional songs have survived because the melodies (and the stories) are so strong that they can be successfully treated in a manner of ways, from the folk-rock experiments of the 1960s to the electronica of The Imagined Villag... more info

Altsounds — Twice winners of BEST GROUP at the Radio 2 Folk Awards (2008/2009), Lau are back with their highly anticipated second album, ‘Arc Light’, released March 30th 09 on Navigator Records (still a young label but firmly establishing it... more info

The Music Fix — Gig Review: Cholera and Cossacks were the order of the day when Steven Burnett caught up with Bellowhead in Cardiff. more info

The Independent — Folk seems far too quiet, cosy and small a word to comprehensively sum up the eclectic and exuberant big band sound made by the English group, Bellowhead. more info

The Telegraph Blog — I met a personal hero the other day - Jon Boden, fiddle player and singer with Bellowhead - in the basement of Cecil Sharpe House, home to the English folk music society. It was during a jamming session that also involved several other of English ... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, London: They have always sounded better live than on record, and have now achieved a fine balance between Boden's deadpan, theatrical vocals and a dash of Kurt Weill more info