With his new book *The North Will Rise Again* published this week by Bloomsbury, author Alex Niven asks why the music of England's north-east is so often overlooked compared to its southern or western ...

A much-loved musical spectacle in his native Newcastle for many years now, Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour who sings and plays guitar with a rare intensity and a very singular style.

Randy Eccles: This performance is called Echoes of the Spirit, Sacred Melodies of the Heart. Michal Connor Dawson: Yes, that's it. These songs were definitely born of the spirit and the heart. It was ...

If you are looking for folkloristic sounds of a quirky kind with particularly special lyrical concepts, then Richard Dawson is the right man for you. On his new album "End Of The Middle", the Brit ...

Dawson frames the conceit within modern families, examining the ways generations relate unsteadily to each other amid damaging patterns of behavior. The smaller scale liberates his best qualities ...