Cecil Sharp House, LondonIt's Halloween weekend in Camden, north London, and ghosts are rising at Cecil Sharp House. Tonight is a celebration of folk songs old and new; of people long-dead who collected and sang them; and of the new generation waking the spectres. Shirley Collins, who hasn't sung live for 30 years, is tonight's star turn, giving a lecture about how folk music was rescued. Her set sits stoutly between the two younger acts, who show how the genre's recent revival has spun in diff...
Guardian Music — Cecil Sharp House, LondonIt's Halloween weekend in Camden, north London, and ghosts are rising at Cecil Sharp House. Tonight is a celebration of folk songs old and new; o... more info