August 2023

Anna Tivel’s stripped-back Outsiders (Live in a Living Room) accentuates the focus on the lyrics and illuminates the folksy nature of her music and the emotional power of her voice at its most intimate. It’s the sound of an artist at the peak of her powers.

With ‘I See A World’, the Peatbog Faeries have done it again – with infectious rhythms, sublime musicianship, a fine ear for experimentation, and a loving respect for Scots tradition, this is a rousing and breath-taking album – they sound as passionate, eager, and energised as they’ve ever been.

Northumberland singer-songwriter Frankie Archer has won the Christian Raphael Prize 2023. Launched in 2018, the award is run in association with the Cambridge Folk Festival and previous winners include Mishra, Katherine Priddy, Nick Hart and, in 2022, Angeline Morrison.

Our latest Folk Show features Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly, The Scrub Jay Orchestra, Cup O Joe, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Eliza Carthy Trio, Jon Wilks, LAU, Norman Paterson, Seth Lakeman and more.

Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak’s ‘Cove’ is a beguiling and transfixing EP providing a memorable listening experience. The juxtaposition of two beautiful voices from such diverse musical backgrounds is a thing of great beauty.

Watch the beautiful video for El Hara, the lead single from Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary’s debut album ‘So Far We Have Come’. Their UK Tour kicks off this month, starting at Sidmouth Folk Festival. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to catch them live.

‘It All Goes Up’, the sixth album by Missouri resident, Beth Bombara, is the perfect summer road trip album; the songs will carry on delivering long after the sun goes down and the miles will fly by.

American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore announces her new album ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ and shares the video for lead single “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me”, featuring two of her closest friends — songwriter Meg Baird and accordionist composer Walt McClements.

“Sounding like a UFO slowly sinking into a peat bog” – Paradise of Bachelors announce new band project ‘Setting’ featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund. Listen to their lead single ‘Zoetropics’ from their debut album ‘Shone A Rainbow Light On’

Watch the video for Dublin City Bells, the new single from contemporary folk artist Lewis Barfoot, taken from her forthcoming second album, Home, due in November 2023. She is on tour in the UK in September.

At its core, William Matheny’s ‘That Grand, Old Feeling’ is an album about searching for meaning and purpose; he says, “Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent most of my life waiting for something to begin”. This deserves to be the start of something big.

Last month, Wren Hinds released his new album, Don’t Die in the Bundu, and in our album review, it was described as a timeless beauty. Listen to the album in full and enjoy Wren’s personal Track by Track guide.

Kent-born singer and multi-instrumentalist Will Page of Noble Jacks premieres his new single celebrating the Kent-based festival Broadstairs Folk Week that kicks off on August 12th. He says: “I hope I can inspire more young musicians to take up folk.”

Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly’s ‘The Beautiful Road’, is a calmative, a sonic balm in times of literal and metaphorical noise, but also a reminder of the verve and the life that can still exist in music. It’s an exceptional feat.