August 2021

Fans of the original will appreciate the upgrade in sound, extensive sleeve notes and extra tracks on Steve Ashley’s Family Album Revisited. For those looking for a slice of vintage folk-rock from one of Britain’s finest songwriters, you’re sure to be welcomed into the family.

Martin Sagadin, a Slovenian Born, New Zealand based non-binary filmmaker and artist, heads to the hills above Lyttelton, New Zealand with Australian folk musician Archer to capture a sublime performance in words and song.

Karine Polwart announces ‘Still As Your Sleeping’ an intimate, stripped-back collection of songs recorded with renowned pianist and composer Dave Milligan. Out on 1st October 2021 via Hudson Records.

Listen to the new single from Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire performing Peggy Gordon. Lisa O’Neill delivers the lyrics – about the despair of unrequited love – with poise and poignancy. Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s solo fiddle is elegant in its gentle understatement.

Taken from his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’, watch John Francis Flynn performing ‘Lovely Joan’ live at Connolly’s of Leap. The video, by Director extraordinaire Peadar Ó Goill, cleverly pairs with the story of a local man’s friendship with a cat. Exceptional on all fronts.

Our Song of the Day comes from the super-talented Fay Hield with “When She Comes”, taken from her latest solo album ‘Wrackline’ which she tours next month. Wrackline is a world lovingly crafted by Hield, with its own logic, its own depths of meaning.

Johnny Whalley shares some of his highlights from this year’s Wickham Festival which went the extra mile in delivering an incredible lineup to an audience that clapped, cheered, sang and danced, showing that live music could, once again, be enjoyed in a muddy field.

Much to the delight of fans and the band, Fairport Convention are back on the road again following the forced hiatus of the past year-and-a-half. On 14th August, they will also be sharing a free online concert recorded at the Brasenose Pub in Cropredy.

Taken from her new album “A Small Unknowable Thing” out this Friday (13 August), Josienne Clarke shares her new single and video “The Collector”, a song inspired by the writer John Fowles.

While Ben Bostick’s “Grown Up Love” is rooted in a very personal relationship and set of events, there’s a universality of experience to touch the heart and soul of anyone who’s found themselves faced with similar situations, heartache and the need to find light amid the darkness.

Organisers of the Sidmouth Folk Festival have sent out heartfelt thanks to everyone who made this year’s event in the Devon seaside town such a rip-roaring sell-out success.

Watch ‘The Cunning Man’, a short film inspired by John Harries (1785-1839), a physician and ‘Cunning Man’ from Carmarthenshire – a healer who uses folklore magic.

It’s great to see some of our favourite bands back on the road again. Don’t miss Edgelarks, The Gigspanner Big Band (now also with John Spiers) and the newly formed duo of Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin.

Our Song of the Day comes from David de la Haye & Jez Lowe with their fascinating and revealing new single ‘Hidden Sounds’…a radio ballad for aquatic lifeforms, told from the perspective of the marine-dwellers themselves about the coastal communities that rely on them.