Our Song of the Day is from the Dublin based 7-piece traditional Irish band Skipper’s Alley. Listen to Buachaillín Deas Óg Mé from their forthcoming album.
For their second album, Seven Tides, Apple Of My Eye are off the charts with a superb collection of stories and songs, that add their own high water mark to this year’s musical output.
Paul heads to London’s 12 Bar Club for a Bucketfull of Brains showcase and is treated to great performances from Sugar Magnolia, Trent Miller and Pete Gow.
A very welcome return to Simple Folk Radio – This month’s show features Doug MacNearney in session, recorded in a remote Canadian cabin during the first snowfall of the season.
Folk Radio UK invite that talented bunch The Poozies as guest bloggers this week. They are currently on tour so catch them if you can – don’t forget the gin.
This was a session we recorded at Purbeck Folk Festival in a field just after sundown. Tom McQ is a wonderful person and is a name I really hope we all hear a lot more of.
London based alt-folk band BURIERS provide our Song of the Day – Peckham Rye, taken from their new EP which was recorded and co-produced by Micah P Hinson.
Jennifer Crook’s Carnforth Station is a gem, here she gives FRUK an exclusive insight into her superb song craft, the trio and guests who helped make the album.
The latest offering from United Bible Studies comes via ‘A Year in the Country’. It’s an album that’s inseparable from its landscapes, full of natural grandeur and musical inventiveness.
We have a pair of tickets to giveaway for The End Festival which runs from 20-23 Nov 2014 in London’s N8. Includes Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, O’Hooley & Tidow and more.
We have a special video diary today from the wonderful Jess Hall which was filmed at this year’s Green Man Festival. Try and catch her live on her current Bookshelf Tour.
Our Tune of the Day is from Ensemble Ériu, an Irish septet led by Jack Talty and Neil O’Loghlen. Although rooted in the Irish music tradition I’ve never heard anything like this before.
