A big show in store from Simple Folk Radio this Saturday featuring James Yorkston in session who is about to release a new album ‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ which you can hear a track from below.
RANT is the joining forces of four of Scotland’s finest fiddle players: Bethany Reid, Jenna Reid, Sarah-Jane Summers and Lauren MacColl, their sound is filled not with a great wall of sound but rich layers of harmony and melodies, beautiful!
Eliza Carthy’s biography Wayward Daughter by Sophie Parkes was released this month. To celebrate, a launch party was held at The Greystones, Sheffield, yesterday evening (22nd May) which was attended by some very familar faces!
Jenny McCormick was destined to be a writer before music took hold of her direction. Her latest album ‘Sweet Demon’ sees the Mancunian songstress using her talent for story-telling to sublime effect.
Traditional folk singer Maggie Boyle took to the road in April to visit great songwriters in their homes, to talk to them about their work and to record some of their music as part of her great new ‘Kitchen Songs’ project.
Joe Tilston has revealed some unmastered tracks from his forthcoming album ‘Embers’. If these are anything to go by then we are in for a real treat and I hope this is a move to a full time solo career.
As Paul Brady releases his new anthology ‘Dancer in the Fire’ which marks his 45 years in the music business, Folk Radio UK talks to him about the album as well as his current influences and more!
Alasdair Roberts & Mairi Morrison have released a new video for ‘Never Wed an Old Man’ which was made by Deborah Bower. The track is taken from their album ‘Urstan’. Plus live dates!
Manchester based Samson & Delilah are in London this week to play at the prestigious Cecil Sharp House. The British/Australian group are headlining the event for EFDSS & The Nest Collective on Thursday May 24th.
Dan Raza’s debut self titled release is an album about roots and identity; love and forgiveness; about leaving home and going back again. The heart of the album’s appeal is Raza’s emergence as a songwriter of exceptional talent.
