On this week’s Simple Folk Radio our monthly resident host Daniel Green returns with a live session from avant jazz composer, poet and skewed pop songwriter Alabaster DePlume, plus studio guest Rory Dickenson.
Get your first taster of Jackie Oates new album ‘Lullabies’, an album featuring some of her favourite lullabies and sleep songs. Watch the video for ‘Dream Angus’.
Prepare for an evening of Hurdy Gurdy and Bagpipe mayhem at Halsway Manor, an evening concert / dance with leading Hurdy Gurdy players Gregory Jolivet, Cliff Stapleton and Steve Tyler will be joined by piper extraordinaire Jon Swayne.
Watch Jim Moray performing ‘Lord Douglas’ which picked up a well deserved BBC Folk Award for ‘Best Tradtional Track’ this week. We’ve long admired his innovation, enthusiasm and most of all his inventiveness!
Desert rock band Terakaft’s latest release Kel Tamasheq was produced by British guitarist and producer Justin Adams. It sounds like no other album and they are coming to London in April! Don’t miss them!
Watch the latest video from Woodpigeon titled ‘Edinburgh’ taken from fifth full-length album ‘Thumbtacks & Glue’. Plus get the latest on his extra UK Tour dates!
Read our special feature on the BBC Folk Awards 2013. Find out who the winners were, watch the video performance highlights and find out what else went on. You can also stream the BBC Folk Awards 2013 Album!
If you love the Gypsy Punk of Gogol Bordello then you’ll love Worldly Savages, a pan-cultural project that revel in Eastern European folk music with their own distinctive fiery delivery!
Canadian singer songwriter Ron Sexsmith’s latest album ‘Forever Endeavour’ marks a few changes from his last 2011 release. His songs get a softer, more orchestrated treatment…get your first taster here.
Australia’s Tame Impala continue to rise in fame as they ride the current surge of psychedelic music which seems to be growing for 2013. Watch their latest video for ‘Mind Mischief’
Animal Collective have today premiered their new music video for Applesauce. Directed by filmmaker Gaspar Noé it features elements from Paul Sharits‘ 1968 short ‘flicker’ film “N:O:T:H:I:N:G”
