Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on. Each type of folk music is very different and can teach us things about a particular culture. Ballads were a popular kind of ...

Its music is drawn from folk traditions and inspired by Woody ... “Civil Butchery,” to a solo by King Henry’s Scottish enemy, the Earl of Douglas, who wonders aloud why he is singing a country song.

Among the luminaries of Scottish traditional music will be Julie Fowlis, who was featured in the soundtrack to Disney’s “Brave”; and Dougie MacLean, the singer-songwriter whose “Caledonia ...