Despite the departure of Claudia Deheza from the band a month ago, the remaining School of Seven Bells members (now duo) played an impressive show at London’s Heaven last week.
The BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominees were announced last night with a surprise nomination of Laura Marling for best Original Song. Are the times a’changin’ ? Maybe, or maybe not.
In follow up to their popular Evergreen EP collaboration with Karine Polwart, Lau are to release a new EP with the multi-talented Adem. Plus get tour dates and catch them performing with Karine Polwart.
The moulettes were one of the highlights at this year’s Open House Festival. With the release of their self-titled debut album this year we caught up with them to talk about their music and influences.
The Decemeberists are to emabrk on their first leg of their interestingly titled “Popes of Pendarvia” World Tour 2011 which will tie in with the release of their new album The King is Dead.
Squinch Owl is the musical moniker of singer-songwriter Sofia Albam, and while the image of a squinching owl may seem to embody a creature that is fearful and shy, the voice of this artist is anything but a passing flutter.
Minneapolis chamber-folk sextet Dark Dark Dark embarked on a winter tour this week. The tour, which runs until the end of the month covers France, Belgium and much of the UK.
Watch this Communion documentary: The footage comes from the November 2010 edition of Communion and the full length performances of the artists featured and others will follow shortly.
Water City is a short video by Martin De Thurah which is part of his City series shown at Expo Shanghai 2010. It is one of most peaceful and visually articulated films I’ve seen in a while.
I discovered and was captivated by Lisa Hannigan’s music last year. The few videos below are the work of a great director: Myles O’Reilly. There is something very warming about them.
