Sophie Hunger’s latest release ‘The Danger of Light’ may not finally cast some light on her real musical persona but it does show Hunger having fun with what seems to have become a career-long quest. Stream the album in full & watch her latest video.
Celebrating the release of his latest album ‘Denatured’ Simple Folk Radio invited Texas native Tony Presley (Real Live Tigers) to join them for a second session which you can hear this coming Sunday at 5:00pm!
John Blek and the Rats are a six-piece band that hail from Cork City and deliver good old-fashioned folk and roots with a genuine home-grown feel. Check their latest video for Hand on my Heart, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Leave your Love at the Door’.
The Little Carpenter is almost the fulcrum of Chris Wood’s latest album as we reach and tip beyond the half way point of the nine track album. As the centre piece it’s also perhaps appropriately the only traditional song on the album. Listen to it here.
Back in February we reviewed The Willows fantastic album ‘Beneath Our Humble Soil’. We’re very pleased to be featuring them again: Watch this great live video session in which they perform three tracks from the album.
This week’s Nest Collective Hour is hosted by Ceri Wade which has a loose theme titled ‘Mixed Bag’ based on the title of Richie Havens album and in honour of him. Ceri will be playing new and much loved Artists from across genres and different parts of the world.
The Centre Cannot Hold is a new EP featuring the hugely talented Ríoghnach Connolly along with Ellis Davies & the equally talented Mendi Singh. You may have heard jazz and folk before but never like this! You can’t touch it!
Folk Radio UK catch up with Spiers & Boden on the latest leg of their ‘Backyard Songs Tour’ at the Hungry Horse Folk Club in Ellesmere Port.The tour is set to culminate at the home of English Folk music, Cecil Sharp House, on 25th May.
Juno award winning Cara Luft is set to released her third solo album, Darlingford in June followed by a UK and Ireland tour. Have a listen to her cover of that track made popular by Maddy Prior & Tim Hart in 1971: ‘The Ploughboy and the Cockney’.
Irish band Bell X1 shave the sonics down on their latest release Chop Chop which was produced by Peter Katis & Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman). The results are spectacular….listen to ‘Starlings Over Brighton Pier’
A welcome return from Folk Radio UK favourites Arborea: Becoming the Latin root of their name, their fifth album Fortress of the Sun transcends eras like the roots of an ancient tree and tells stories in meditative glimpses.
French artist Cécile Schott best known as Colleen returns after a five years with a new album titled The Weighing of the Heart. Watch her new video which features the work of Japanese experimental film maker Makino Takashi and listen to album excerpts.
