We look back at some of our most popular Mixtapes – this features Mountain Man, Pharis and Jason Romero, Bob Dylan, Tom Rosenthal, Johnny Flynn, Valerie June, Michael Kiwanuka, Joni Mitchell, The Staves, Aisha Burns, Karima Walker, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Aldous Harding, Gillian Welch & more.
Sam Lee announces his new album songdreaming and a supporting UK-wide tour. Watch his new video for the album single Bushes and Briars – an invitation to consider what appreciation in the age of extinction can feel like.
Folklore and superstition surrounding birds inspire the latest single from Simon Jones – I Thought I Saw A Bird. “…For me, even though my logical mind says superstitions are not rooted in factual truths, there is an equal part that asks, ‘What if?’”
A campaign is underway to save the Royal Hotel in Dungworth from property developers – a local pub also home to a Folk Club and rich Carolling Tradition. Jon Boden, who set up the folk club there with Fay Hield, has made a personal plea.
Bellowhead founders and frontmen Spiers and Boden have announced a Spring Tour for 2024, something any folkie should find impossible to resist. They reunited in 2021 for Fallow Ground, “a genuinely warm-hearted, exuberant, and life-affirming album”.
The Radio Ballad ‘Singing The Fishing’, a gripping and enchanting tale of the East Coast Herring Fishing Industry, is to be brought to life in a new stage production. Read about the Radio Ballads, including extracts from our interview with Peggy Seeger and more.
This was a very popular Mixtape from 2017 featuring Jack Rutter, Georgia Lewis, Cormac Begley, Dempsey Broughton, John Smith, Lal & Mike Waterson, Ye Vagabonds, Fay Hield, Hanna Rarity, Rosie Hood, Ensemble Ériu and more.
The viola and viol combination on Nick Hart and Tom Moore’s “The Colour of Amber” adds a beautiful richness and depth to the songs and tunes, and the album stands head and shoulders above just about any other English traditional album of the last few years.
We look back at some of our most popular Mixtapes – this Psych-folk special featured Pentangle, Heron, Tony Caro and John, Trees, Trembling Bells, Trappist Afterland, Sproatly Smith, Espers, Meg Baird, Linda Perhacs, Mick Softley, Mata Hari and more.
Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Cuckoo Storm’, watch the animated video for Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley’s new single ‘Watching The Starlings’.
‘Light Years’ is everything we could have hoped for and so much more. This seamless blend of old and new, tradition and novelty, epitomises what both Christmas and Kate Rusby are all about.
Singing duo Ben & Dom have joined forces with folk singer Anna Tabbush for a haunting rendition of ‘Winter Song’. Watch them performing the song in Guildford’s oldest church St Mary’s, which dates back to 1040AD.
