This week’s Folk Show features all new music as well as some forthcoming new releases from Nick Hart’s new album ‘Nine English Folk Songs’ due for release on 1 May, Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes’ new album Stone Soup who are performing this month at Costa Del Folk on 28 April, and we’ve also sneaked in a couple of tracks (by Lankum and Olivia Chaney) from the forthcoming Topic Records Anniversary compilation – Vision & Revision : The First 80 Years Of Topic Records which is out on 31 May (pre-order here).
We’ve also music from a few of our Featured Albums of the Month: Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening’s ‘Hollowbone’ (reviewed here), Ye Vagabonds’ ‘The Hares Lament’ (reviewed here) and Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly’s ‘Changeable Heart’ (reviewed here). All of this plus new music from Hat Check Girl, Josienne Clarke (an as yet unheard track from her forthcoming single release, it’s the first B-side ‘Season & Time’), Thom Ashworth, Mike Vass, Gnoss, Dallahan and The Breath.
Enjoy.
Music Played
Nick Hart – The Molecatcher
Sophie Crawford – A Miner’s Life
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening – Hushabye Birdie / Hexham Lasses
Gráinne Brady – Fields Of Renfrewshire
Ye Vagabonds – Seven Little Gypsies
Hat Check Girl – Hard To Know
Josienne Clarke – Season and Time
Lankum – The Sea Captain
Thom Ashworth – The Snow It Melts The Soonest
Mike Vass – Gates Of Saints
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening – Old Stones / Holy Island Jig
Gnoss – The Waking Hour
Dallahan – Aye Chiki Chiki
Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly – My Lagan Love
Cormac Byrn & Adam Summerhayes – Arising: Part 3
Olivia Chaney – Polly Vaughan
The Breath – Only Stories (Acoustic)