The Bert Jansch Foundation release ’80 Plays for Bert, Volume 1′, in which his music and legacy are celebrated through a new generation of artists who have taken inspiration from his work. It will resonate with Jansch fans and beyond.
Our Song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina-based singer songwriter Emma Geiger with her new single ‘Empty’, in which she delves deeper and more fearlessly into a constantly shifting internal world.
Cath & Phil Tyler have recorded a version of the folk classic I Come And Stand At Every Door. Proceeds will go to the charity War Child, the only specialist international charity for children affected by conflict.
Steven Adams has already been called a national musical treasure, and on ‘Drops’, he charts a course between songs which contrast light and shade, the serious alongside the humourous. We should be grateful that some fifteen years on, he is still forging his own unique path.
On Echo Me On, everything goes down so smoothly that Lee Baggett’s songs take you by total surprise; he says so much but with such effortless grace. Features in Folk Radio’s Top 100 Albums of 2023.
Featuring music from Esther Rose, Anna Ash, Waxahatchee, Jenny Lewis, Erin Rae & Kevin Morby, White Fence, Big Thief, Cat Clyde, Jana Horn, Bill Callahan, Silver Jews, Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid, This is the Kit, Isobel Campbell, Stereolab, Arthur Russell and more.
Our latest Mixtape is a globetrotting alternative offering featuring Hyperculte, ADG7, Andreas Røysum Ensemble, Umeko Ando, Minami Deutsch, Blood Wine or Honey, Sutari, Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith, Monsieur Doumani and YĪN YĪN.
Senegal’s Dieuf-Dieul ed Thies release their new studio album on 19th January via Buda Musique, to be followed in 2025 by a European Tour. Watch their music video for their new album single Galo.
A seventies psych folk mixtape featuring F.J. McMahon, Shelagh McDonald, Michael Chapman, Bridget St John, Gary Higgins, Spud, Folque, Sandy Bull, Jean Ritchie, Robin Williamson, Pentangle, The Woods Band and more.
An extra-long winter themed Folk Show featuring Martin Carthy with June Tabor, Nadia Cattouse, Sam Shackleton, Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden, Villagers & Lisa Hannigan, Jake Blount, Jean Ritchie, Lisa O’Neill, Richard Thompson and lots more.
In ‘Pilgrimage for a Pint’, a new BBC Radio 4 documentary on Christmas Eve, Folk musicians Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart set out on a journey to the most remote pub in mainland Britain – The Old Forge in Inverie.
