Liverpool quartet Dead Belgian combinine influences in European Folk and Prog Rock / Pop. Their latest release ‘Love And Death: The Songs of Jacques Brel’ weaves between playful abandon, a delicate sparseness and compelling theatre.
Bert Jansch – Young Man Blues: Live in Glasgow (1962-64) is to be released on vinyl for the first time as 1000 hand-numberd copies on 180g vinyl. Folk Radio UK has a number of copies available!
Join us at Priddy Folk Festival this year as they celebrate their 21st Anniversary in style. Artists include: Spiers & Boden, Spiro, Jackie Oates Band, John McCusker, John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine and lots more!
Nigel Brown is a London based singer songwriter whose ambition has always been to write great songs. Inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan his latest album has brought him several steps closer to that dream.
After Lisa Knapp released her new EP Hunt the Hare at the beginning of May she placed some tracks on soundcloud and invited folks to do a remix of ‘The Pleasant Month of May’. Ged Flood of ‘Mishaped Pearls’ rose to the challenge!
The new Simple Folk Radio Show (from Saturday) is hosted by SFR’s own Dillon along with Tom Marsh of the band ‘The Robot Heart’ who will also feature in session.
Sheelanagig’s latest album, ‘Cirque Insomnia’, finds the band once again stirring their crowded melting pot of world musical influences. Balkan folk music is a constant throughout the record & offers them a basis for experimentation.
Folk Radio UK favourites Buck and Shanti Curran, better known as Arborea, recently performed a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR which you can watch below. They hope to be in the UK later this year so keep your ears open!
Jake Cogan’s latest album ‘Parcel of Rogues’ is a sure winner! If you enjoy traditional Scottish song with a gentle contemporary twist, go out and buy this album now.
On April 29th 2012 Fink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra collaborated for a stunning one-off performance in Amsterdam’s prestigious Concertgebouw to a sold out crowd.
On ‘The Sailor’s Revenge’ Bap Kennedy has surpassed all his past music to create as close as any musician is likely to get to their perfect record. The stars aligned, this is the album that Kennedy was always capable of making.
