James Hunter cut a novel figure at the High Sierra Music Festival this past 4th of July weekend. The British guitar-playing soul singer took the stage in a stylishly cut gray suit, his hair brushed ...

The 1950s were where it all started for rock music. While some proto-rock origins can be found in the 40s, the 50s were where rock music really started to develop. And even though decades have passed ...

Shirley Abicair, who has died aged 98, became a television and radio star in the 1950s as a self-taught exponent of the ...

Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg gained fame as a punk rock and folk musician in the 1980s. Now nearing 60, he’s still singing songs of protest and passion, but also singing the gospel of skiffle, a folk ...

Shirley Collins has dedicated most of her life to the preservation and interpretation of British folk music, keeping traditions alive while also shaping them to the contemporary moment at the same ...

It's hard to believe, but before the 1950s, guitars were rarely heard in British music. Billy Bragg says the first guitars to hit the British pop scene came as a part of skiffle, a musical movement ...

Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and who nurtured a dual career as an actress, performing in musicals and dramatic ...

Musician Kevin Giragosian grew up in Palos Park loving the Beatles. He had heard “Wake Up Little Susie,” by the Everly Brothers, but wasn’t inspired much by ’50s music, he said. When a friend ...