Folk Radio UK teams up with Purbeck Folk Festival as a media sponsor. Set on the beautiful Jurassic coast of Dorset this promises to be an unforgettable festival with a fantastic line-up!
A special début from Sri Lanka’s Woody Guthrie, Bhi Bhiman. With cutting lyrics and a commanding, unique voice, Bhiman soars from the speakers like a cross between Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt and Antony Hegarty.
Two Trees are a Swedish folk duo who have been picking up a growing number of fans since they revealed two tracks on soundcloud recently: ‘Lay Me Down’ & ‘Your Woods’. Definitely a name to watch for 2012.
We have a feast of videos for you from this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival including live performances from Roy Harper, Raghu Dixit Cathy Jordan, Fay Hield and The Hurricane Party, Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka & more.
Jake Bugg must feel like he’s on a rollercoaster of a ride having first come to recognition after a local DJ submitted one of his tracks to BBC Introducing. Since then his fame has been rocketing along!
Listen to and download Josephine Foster’s new track ‘Child of God’ which is taken from her forthcoming album ‘Blood Rushing’ due for release on 17th September on Fire Records.
We talk to Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Will Whitwham of Canadian based chamber-folk ensemble ‘The Wilderness of Manitoba’ who recently arrived in the UK for string of live dates and an appearance at this year’s WOMAD!
Download the début track ‘There is no other night’ from South London band Stellify. There is a mass of influences at play on this track from the classic to the psychedelic!
The new Simple Folk Radio Show which will be broadcast first this Sunday at 5.00pm will feature a session from Rozi Plain with Francois and the Atlas Mountains recorded from her recent album launch party!
This Friday will mark the first broadcast of HI54LOFI RECORDS‘ “MIX TAPE RADIO“ on Folk Radio UK. Not to be missed, will include the first in a series of Bedroom Sessions, this week from: A Singer Of Songs
Howe Gelb‘s expanded group Giant Giant Sand will be playing their only UK show as a full band at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire on Sunday 12 August. An opportunity to see ‘Tucson‘ performed as a the rock opera it was intended to be.
This free download from Alexi Murdoch and two artists on the Icelandic record label Bedroom Community (Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly) promotes the innovative PopTech conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.
