Today, being the fourth Thursday of November which marks Thanksgiving Day in the US it seemed more than appropriate that Stephen Kellogg’s epic ‘Thanksgiving’ should be Song of the Day.
Lily Mae, the 17 year old contemporary folk singer from Bucks County, PA, has released a lovely Christmas single titled ‘Winter Lullaby’. Listen to it here.
Our Song…or in this case, Tune of the Day is from award winning Irish band Fullset. This is a great set of reels titled The Glen Road to Carrick and was filmed at Nenagh Arts Centre in Co. Tipperary.
Jamie Smith’s MABON recently made a TV appearance on the welsh television programme ‘Heno’ on S4C. Watch it here and get their free Welsh language song ‘Caru Pum Merch’.
Benjamin William Pike is both an outstanding guitarist and songwriter. He talks to FRUK exclusively about his Mattie Foulds’ produced debut CD, Being & Nothingness.
Cheltenham Folk Festival returns once again in February 2014 with a weekend long celebration of folk music and song: Blowzabella, O’Hooley & Tidow, Chris Wood, Blazin’ Fiddles & many more!
Melt Yourself Down kick off the UK leg of their tour today at The Deaf Institute, Manchester. To celebrate they have released a free Mixtape which you can download for free.
This year at Purbeck Folk Festival we went with Baylis Gray and filmed some sessions. Here is Martha Tilston performing ‘More’ from her album Machines of Love and Grace.
Folk Radio UK favourite Rachel Sermanni has announced the release of her new EP ‘Everything Changes’, the title track for which is our Song of the Day. Listen to it here.
Listen to and download for free the track ‘I Hold’ performed by Sivu and featuring Marika Hackman who will be supporting Sivu on his headline tour dates next month.
Exclusive interview with Tim Crabtree as the official UK and European release of the album from Paper Beat Scissors (Album of the Month) sees him returning to these shores to tour and record a BBC session.
