Canadian-American duo Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves are on tour in the UK now. Their stellar musicianship has been recognised with many plaudits coming their way, including a 2023 JUNO nomination and two 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Gregory Alan Isakov announces his new album, Appaloosa Bones (due for release on August 18th), and shares the accompanying music video for his lead single ‘The Fall’. To celebrate, he has an extensive North American tour lined up with some special guests followed by UK/EU dates.
With Spirits, The Circling Sun have managed to produce an album which succeeds in paying due respect to the African American greats of jazz whilst simultaneously imbuing their compositions with a passionate South Pacific empathy and insight.
L Con’s “The Isolator” is an adventurous foray into self-interrogation and within the album, there are some very honest, relatable, and rare statements that are, perhaps more than anything, the mark of a great artist.
The accompanying collage video by Renata Zeiguer for Laura Wolf’s new single ‘Homebody’ is the perfect visualisation of her music as sounds lose their gravity, being beautifully repurposed into something totally new and unexpected.
Brigid Mae Power shares a lyric video for her new single ‘The Waterford Song’, a dreamy psych-tinged offering, heavily steeped in the language of nature and a ‘meditation on the place where my family have lived for over 1,000 years.’
Produced by his son Tucker Martine and joined by guests that include Peter Buck, Bill Frisell, Laura Veirs, k.d. lang and Karl Blau. Music Man clearly demonstrates that the 81-year-old veteran Nashville-based songwriter Layng Martine Jr can sing them as well as write them.
Women’s Power is a powerful, intimate, yet universal song, taken from ‘Impermanence’, the forthcoming new album by Italian artist Adele H. The beautiful video that accompanies the single was mostly filmed in Northern Italy in Lombardia, next to the Adda River.
The true narrative of the Ruen Brothers’ ‘Ten Paces’ is filled with ‘Wanted’ posters, wagon trains, big-city angst, dreams and despair – all given life by these bold songs, tailor-made to seize the airwaves from Scunthorpe’s steel mills to Dakota’s dusty border.
Our latest Folk Show features music from Lucy Farrell, Damir Imamović, Gnoss, Sam Sweeney & Louis Campbell, Liz Hanks, Roy Harper, Tim Edey & Ross Ainslie, Kris Drever, Samantha Whates, Ichiko Aoba, Josienne Clarke and more.
El Tiradito (The Curse of Sinner’s Shrine) marks the next stage of Dean Owens’s hugely atmospheric collaboration with iconic Latin rockers Calexico. With Owens tapping into his inner Morricone, all it needs now is a screenplay.
Damir Imamović’s latest album, The World and all that it Holds, is a beautiful, crystal clear, unpretentious and direct offering. Produced by Joe Boyd and released on Folkways, it is a triumph and delight on so many levels and is performed with the utmost skill and soul.
