Darling Charms is the second video track from The Magpie Arc (watch the first here), the new cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Edinburgh featuring the multi-award-winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Adam Holmes, Tom A Wright (The Albion Band and Ashley Hutchings Morris-On Show) and Alex Hunter (Adam Holmes and The Embers). Here at Folk Radio, it gives us immense pleasure to share this new video for Darling Charms and if this doesn’t get you excited about The Magpie Arc then I don’t know what will… needless to say, it’s also our Song of the Day.
Formed as an idea, then some phone calls, then a get together for a discussion, and finally, the obligatory studio jam, the musical possibilities of this band being something special and unique in today’s UK folk scene became obvious very quickly.
There will be new songs. There will be some great (and maybe unusual) covers and there will be reworked traditional songs. There will be folk, and there will very likely be blues. A bit of country, there may even be some rock ‘n’ roll.
Whatever happens, it will be a musical mix of everything you could expect from such a line-up, from lush harmonies to intricate electric guitars, gorgeous fiddle lines and rock-solid bass and drums.
Writing and rehearsing over the next three months, the band are recording their first album early next year, and this will be released to coincide with summer festivals and an autumn UK tour in 2020.
The Magpie is taking flight, and you can keep up to speed with all band news by following them at their new social media sites…
Facebook – TheMagpieArc
Twitter – @themagpiearc
Instagram – themagpiearc