Featuring Chris Brain, Melrose Quartet, Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain, Frankie Archer, Daniel Bachman, Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz, The Rosie Hood Band, Allysen Callery, Grace Smith Trio, J ason Singh & The Banwasi Collective, Eliza Carthy Trio, Lal Waterson and more.
Curated by UK guitarist, singer, and songwriter Henry Parker, Tompkins Square announce Imaginational Anthem vol. XII: I Thought I Told You – A Yorkshire Tribute to Michael Chapman and share Parker’s own cover of ‘In the Valley’.
Full Metal Jacket, the new single from Ruth Theodore’s eagerly awaited new album, is a snowball of a song which “has subliminally been gaining momentum my whole life”. Watch the accompanying video, and don’t miss her November UK Tour dates.
Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and multi-award-winning traditional and classical violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain share their new single and video ‘Woven’. It’s taken from their forthcoming album ‘Double You’, a Folk Radio Featured Album of the Month.
Chris Brain’s ‘Steady Away’ is an introspective and reflective offering. Intelligently written and considerately handled, it’s everything a second album should be; an excellent album by a musician really starting to bloom.
Magg Tekki, is the debut offering from the Senegalese drum and vocal orchestra Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff, a collaboration with Swedish musician and archivist Karl-Jonas Winqvist. Listen to their new single, “La Musique de Cœur”. It’s pure joy!
Laura Veirs has shared the gorgeous new single “Creatures Of The Day” from her upcoming album Phone Orphans. “Creatures of a Day is about how sadness and beauty are linked in the ephemeral nature of life.”
Kate Rusby announces her seventh Christmas album, “Light Years”, featuring Alison Krauss and Ron Block – out on December 1st (Digital/CD/Vinyl), three days before her fiftieth birthday and followed by her always popular annual Christmas Tour.
Myriam Gendron’s debut album, “Not So Deep As A Well”, is being re-issued and will be available for the first time in Europe on 17th November 2023 via Basin Rock. Listen to Bric-á-brac, our Song of the Day, and included in the new expanded version.
A decidedly ambitious project, P.J.M. Bond’s ‘In Our Time’ is based on the writings of Ernest Hemingway which has been glowingly acclaimed by a highly respected Hemingway scholar; it fully deserves to reap the same rewards from music critics and audiences too.
Steven Adams, formerly of The Broken Family Band, releases his new album DROPS on Fika Recordings, his first new music since 2020 and his noisiest record to date. Watch his new video for ‘Heads Keep Rolling’.
Take a bow Bill Mackay and Cooper Crain – BCMC’s Foreign Smokes is like one continual experimental, inquisitive journey, filled with an appealing freshness and dynamism – a strange and thrilling tonic.
