Traditional Folk Music

  • Ian Matthews

    Iain Matthews is an English musician. He was an original member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern…

  • Janis Ian

    Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit “Society’s Child ” and the 1975 Top Ten single…

  • Mary Hopkin

    Mary Elizabeth Blodwen Hopkin, credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single “Those Were…

  • Athol Guy

    Athol George Guy is an Australian musician and former politician who was a member of the Australian folk-pop music group the Seekers, for whom he played double bass and sang. He is…

  • Tim Hardin

    James Timothy Hardin was an American folk music and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his own success, his songs “If I Were a Carpenter”, “Reason to Believe”, “Misty Roses” and…

  • Rory Gallagher

    William Rory Gallagher was an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. Regarded as “Ireland’s first rock star”, he is known for his virtuosic style of guitar playing and live performances. He has sometimes…