Guardian Music — September 1939: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicBritain's declaration of war on Germany rather overshadowed the release of a 78rpm disc called The Man That Waters Down the Workers' Beer by Paddy Ryan.... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonTen years ago, in a pub on the outskirts of Oxford, a former genetics student who had switched his attention to the melodeon and concertina met a singer and fiddle player influenced by "Tom Waits, Benjamin Britten and Pe... more info

Totally Fuzzy — mercurochrome said... Thee YoungMossTongue Presents CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND - Lick My Decals Off, Baby CLINIC - Winchester Cathedral SLOVENLY - We Shoot For The Moon NOMEANSNO - Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed THE DAMNED - Machine Gun E... more info

Guardian Music — Singer delights fans with surprise appearance at Sidmouth Folk Festival event celebrating his musicAfter an absence of 28 years, one of the great names of British folk music made a surprise and emotional return to the stage today.Nic Jones, a huge in... more info

Guardian Music — (Lane Records)Andy Cutting is one of the great British exponents of the button accordion, and a musician who seems to have played with everyone on the British folk scene. After all, he worked in a duo with singer-songwriter Chris Wood, spent time wit... more info

Guardian Music — (Topic)The daughter-and-mother team of Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson have sung and recorded before, often with the family group Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time that these award-winning pioneers of the folk revival have released an album... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonRichard Thompson had been, in the words of a friend working on the Meltdown team, "like a kid in a candy store all day" about this gig.No wonder. Including the festival curator, there were half a dozen guitar gods up on st... more info

Guardian Music — Jay-Z plays two arena dates (7 Jun, MEN Arena; 9 Jun, Birmingham LG Arena, livenation.co.uk) before headlining Wireless (4 Jul, Hyde Park, W1, wirelessfestival.co.uk), where he's joined by Mr Hudson …Kings Of Leon also rock Hyde Park (30 Jun, l... more info

Roundhouse, LondonThe magazine Roots has played a key role in promoting folk, world music and the varied fusions of the new roots scene, and this brave, unexpectedly slick 30th-anniversary show managed to mix experiments, history and surprises, with ... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonThe magazine Roots has played a key role in promoting folk, world music and the varied fusions of the new roots scene, and this brave, unexpectedly slick 30th-anniversary show managed to mix experiments, history and surprises, with ... more info