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Shirley Collins

May 2023

  • Shirley Collins press photo

    Shirley Collins: Archangel Hill review – brio and unforced gravitas

    The veteran folk singer’s renaissance continues with this gem of weathered vocals and exquisite accompaniments
  • Shirley Collins in 2023

    The reader interview
    Shirley Collins: ‘Is folk music a potent political tool? I would say: my arse’

    The 87-year-old singer answers your questions, from unearthing music in 1950s America to losing her voice for 38 years – and what she really thought of Pete Seeger and Ewan MacColl
  • Shirley Collins, who will take on your questions.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Shirley Collins

    Ahead of new album Archangel Hill, the 87-year-old British folk singer will answer your questions about her astonishing career

February 2023

  • Sisters Shirley (left) and Dolly Collins circa 1970.

    ‘Haunting and poignant’: long-lost mass by Shirley Collins’ sister Dolly finally makes its debut

    A school-gate chat led to the rediscovery of the late composer Dolly Collins’ Missa Humana, as her folk star sister, the writer Maureen Duffy and medieval academic Lawrence Warner explain

January 2022

  • Shirley Collins recording in Hampstead, 1962.

    America Over the Water by Shirley Collins review – a vivid tale of ballads, gunfire and rattlesnakes

    In this welcome reissue of her 2004 memoir, the celebrated folk singer recounts her song-hunting 1959 journey through the American south with the folklorist Alan Lomax

December 2020

  • Jake Blount, Shirley Collins and Bróna McVittie.

    Best music of 2020
    The 10 best folk albums of 2020

    Folk artists this year drew inspiration from China, south Asia and the wildness of the sea on the way to making stirring and vital music

July 2020

  • Shirley Collins

    Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – unerring brilliance

  • Shirley Collins and Stewart Lee

    'Our collective imagination could die away': Stewart Lee and Shirley Collins in conversation

  • Evil

    This week's new tracks
    Tracks of the week reviewed: Evil, Shirley Collins, Sufjan Stevens

  • Folk singer Shirley Collins performing at City Halls, in Glasgow, Scotland, on 4 February 2017. ALso appearing on the bill were singer Sam Lee, singer Alasdair Roberts, Pete Cooper and Dave Arthur.

    Folk album of the month
    Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease review – the voice of a benevolent God

April 2018

  • Photo of Shirley COLLINS<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of Shirley COLLINS; Shirley Collins at a recording studio (Photo by Brian Shuel/Redferns)

    All in the Downs by Shirley Collins review – the English Folk Revivalist’s revival

    A memoir from the singer who lost her voice that celebrates her roots and is unsparing about the London scene’s leading lights

October 2017

  • Authentic, feisty and humble … Shirley Collins

    The Ballad of Shirley Collins review – brilliant story of lost folk singer

    After she lost her voice on stage in the 70s, Collins dropped off the folk map – but here she comes clean about her grief, her recovery and her music

July 2017

  • Amythyst Kiah.

    Cambridge folk festival review – May-bashing, protest songs and a conga line

    Folk-fest veteran Shirley Collins, Fantastic Negrito and a frantic Frank Turner made the weekend’s pallid country-pop acts a distant memory

May 2017

  • Alex Neilson (who also records as Alex Rex)

    Alex Rex: 'Authenticity is a red herring. It’s better to try something new'

    With a dark new alter ego, Trembling Bells’ Alex Neilson pushes himself into uncomfortable places for his bold and brilliant debut as a solo artist

April 2017

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    On my radar
    On my radar: Shirley Collins’s cultural highlights

    The musician on finding consolation at her local churchyard, the brilliance of Stewart Lee, and why she’s currently drinking Breaky Bottom wine

February 2017

  • Folk singer Shirley Collins performing at City Halls, in Glasgow, Scotland, on 4 February 2017. ALso appearing on the bill were singer Sam Lee, singer Alasdair Roberts, Pete Cooper and Dave Arthur.

    Shirley Collins review – a five-star foray into the darker depths of folk

    In an atmosphere charged with excitement, the secret treasure of English folk music delivered a performance of unwavering and revelatory intimacy

January 2017

  • Musical forecasters … from left, Peter Hook, Little Simz and Shirley Collins.

    Music blog
    Musical highlights of 2017: Peter Hook, Ellie Rowsell, Shirley Collins and more share their tips

    From next-generation morris dancers to a psyche-pop comeback and Toronto’s rising urban music scene, artists share their top picks on the musical calendar

October 2016

  • Confident and uncompromising … Shirley Collins.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Shirley Collins: Lodestar review – austere, foreboding music from long-silent singer

    She hasn’t released an album of new material since 1978 and hardly sang for 30 years – but now Shirley Collins is back with songs full of the stark strangeness that made her early work so powerful
  • Shirley Collins - P.C Eva Vermandel - shirley 002 10 - 300 dpi

    Music blog
    Lilt to last: Cohen, Collins and Clark prove age is no barrier to great music

    Autumn 2016 is proving to be the season of the great octogenarian – with a raft of releases that show how veteran musicians can gain new depth from age
  • Shirley Collins

    Shirley Collins: Lodestar review – a late-flowering triumph

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