Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are due to release their new album ‘Specter At The Feast’ in March…get your first taster as they release their first ‘free’ single “Let The Day Begin“.
Nick Hemming’s The Leisure Society are back with a new album ‘Alone Aboard the Ark’, watch the album trailer, get the tour dates and a free track: The Sober Scent Of Paper
Jesca Hoop’s new album ‘The Complete Kismet Acoustic’ is about rediscovery in many ways…her best album yet…as Tom Waits once said “her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”
Watch a collection of sessions that were recently recorded by the BBC at Celtic Connections, some of our favourites that we featured over 2012: Karine Polwart, Trembling Bells, Rachel Hair Trio and Jo Mango!
The latest offering from Edinburgh based roots collective Southern Tenant Folk Union ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun‘ is fizzing with emotional charge…challenging, inventive and original, it doesn’t get much better!
Lily Mae is a 16 year old contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Bucks County, PA. She recently released her stunning debut EP ‘Early Days’. We caught up with Lily and her sister Chloe, also her lyricist!
Hiss Golden Messenger have announced the release of their fifth album ‘Haw’, get your first taster here….pricklier and more unknowable than the places explored on ‘Poor Moon’ (2011)
The Black Twig Pickers are back with a new album Rough Carpenters. All those small musical nuances go to make up the unique whole…As Gangloff explains, “It’s not the melody, it’s the moss.”
Folk Radio UK teams up with fRoots – folk, roots & world magazine, to carry their monthly fRoots Radio show presented by fRoots editor, musician and veteran ex-BBC World Service broadcaster Ian Anderson.
In Episode 2: Day 2. ‘High up on the Ancient Ridgeway’ of ‘An English Love Story’ M.N. Hopwood continues on his journey from Ogbourne St George to high up on Uffington Hill.
With the imminent release of a new album and a major UK tour, Folk Radio took the chance to talk with guitar and song writing legend Richard Thompson whilst he was in the UK in early January.
Whilst I appreciate that mainstream radio may have tired out some of you from hearing Mumford and Sons I still found myself smiling when I saw this session. Reminded me of Open House Festival in Belfast.
