Folk Radio UK launch The Levels Collective. A live music night starting in October 2014. First acts booked: Mairearad Green & Anna Massie / Galley Beggar / Bill Caddick / Sproatly Smith.
Our Song of the Day is from Filthy Pedro. The Space Boy’s Song is his tribute to Shirley Collins Space Girl and features on the new Shirley Inspired album.
In ‘Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour’ Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have produced a work of beauty and depth which deserves to be acknowledged as a classic in the canon of contemporary UK folk music.
Having passed the 20 year mark in her extraordinary career, Kate Rusby is busy as ever, with a brilliant new album Ghost, a UK tour and two young’uns to educate in the family’s musical tradition.
With a UK tour and the proper release of The Ballads Of Peckham Rye on CD, vinyl and DDL, Ross Wilson gives FRUK an exclusive insight into his creative process and drops a couple of surprises.
Even when the subject matter’s downbeat Police Dog Hogan find positivity and deliver it with the sort of buoyancy and verve as they so ably demonstrate on their new album.
Our Song of the Day comes from Fifteen Days, the moniker of Darren Plant, originally from the Midlands now based in London. ‘Til The Day You Die is from his latest EP.
Follow the Music is a superb record in every way, it exudes a gentleness borne of strength, revealing its heart and soul, its depth and beauty, in its own sweet time, over successive listens.
We have a very special guest mix from Naomi Bedford in which she has selected ten of her favourite protest songs which include Hedy West, Dylan, The Clash, Dick Gaughan and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from U. Srinivas, India’s premier mandolin player, who passed away this month. This is him performing in August 1992 in The Wood Room at Real World Studios.
With its seamless, timeless blend of the traditional and the modern, Stories Still Untold should be in the top purchase list of any folksong fan and place Ewan amongst the music’s elite.
