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Spotlight: Working: Schultz concocts her own treats Lauren Schultz is an employee at Dairy Queen in Streator. She is 16 years old and attends Streator Township High School. Q: Can you describe your job? A: I take orders and make ice cream. You have Read more on The Ottawa Times Noted Pakistani folk singer lives in penury Islamabad, Oct 4 : Zarsanga, who is considered the Queen of Pashto folk…

Folk meets Classical in this exciting collaborative evening with the young Derbyshire folk singer and fiddler Bella Hardy. Though only 25, Bella has already been nominated for three BBC Radio 2 folk awards.  This eclectic evening will showcase the works written for Bella as part of Manchester Camerata’s Composers’ Project, in addition to Italian composer Luciano Berio’s extraordinary collection of folk songs, a straight folk set performed by Bella, and…

Will Lang, best known for his percussion in folk-fusion group Park Bench Social Club and Mabon has recruited some of the finest musicians from the Folk and Hip-Hop worlds, both from the UK and Australia, to explore and unravel histories, identities and culture. Combining these diverse talents, the band are pushing British folk to a new and incredible level.

A spectacular evening that sees two giants of the folk scene – Pentangle's John Renbourn and Incredible String Band's Robin Wiliamson – performing together. Luminary acoustic guitarist and songwriter John Renbourn is best known for his collaborations with Bert Jansch and his time with the legendary folk/jazz fusion band Pentangle. Scottish multi-instrumentalist, musician, singer, songwriter and master Celtic storyteller Robin Williamson made his name as a member of the Incredible…

Jesca Hoop was born in Southern California to strict Mormon parents. She grew up singing traditional folk tunes in four-part harmony, but soon broke away from this background, becoming a homesteader and working with children. As a nanny for Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s three children, Hoop gained both musical experience and notoriety; Waits said of Jesca, 'Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night'. Following exposure…

Tickets to folk wünderkind Jon Boden and his band The Remnant Kings at The Met, Manchester.

Tickets to the pioneering American singer/songwriter live at The Lowry, Manchester. In the early to mid-1980s, she emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk scene that had spawned Bob Dylan and Joan Baez twenty years previously. Although her work borrowed much from folk's tradition of storytelling through song, her gentle yet powerfully political acoustic pop brought singles such as "Marlene on the wall', 'Luka' and the hugely successful 'Solitude Standing'…