On this week’s Simple Folk Radio Dillon will be joined by guest co-presenter Ro Cemm (End Of The Road/Oh! Canada) and they will be featuring a live recording of Dan Mangan in session.
Reveal Records are delighted to welcome Eddi Reader to the label. A series of album re-issues will be made available in July, prior to the release of a new studio album and UK Tour in November!
Read our latest interview with Ross Wilson of Blue Rose Code…”I’ve been running on fear and anger for so many years, but day by day I’m trying to expand my emotional experience and bring some contentment into my life”
In week two of our preview of Chris Wood’s new album ‘None the Wiser’ we preview the track ‘Jerusalem’, one that initially appears as the first of the album’s real surprises and Chris talks about getting no wiser.
There’s a great energy to Gavin Davenport’s new album ‘The Bone Orchard’. Whether the sleight of the poacher or the thrill of the races he has a commanding voice that brings these songs to life.
In case you missed it here is the Hothouse Festival preview show we recently aired. Come and join us at this great one day festival on Saturday 6th April 2013 at Halsway Manor in Somerset near Taunton.
This weeks Nest Collective Hour will have a bird theme. It is presented by Sam Lee and features a live session from You Are Wolf, she will be performing songs from her bird project.
One of Folk Radio UK’s favourite artists Nels Andrews heads to the UK this month for an unmissable tour. We caught up with him to talk about the tour and his last album ‘Scrimshaw’.
A new programme comes to Folk Radio UK this coming Friday featuring Shirley Collins which looks at the bleak but true tale of ‘The Poor Murdered Woman’ and unearths new information about her fate.
Fay Hield brought her band The Hurricane Party to The Met for the final date of a short but eventful tour promoting not only her 2012 second album Orfeo, but also in a celebration of traditional English music .
Chris Wood, Jim Moray and Jackie Oates will be among the major names from English folk music performing at English Folk Expo – to be held the weekend before the world music industry conference Womex 2013.
Roddy Woomble the erstwhile Idlewild-er has proved over a series of albums, with band, solo and in consort with others, to have a consummate gift for a tune. Listen to Keep is no exception!
