About Time, Hannah White’s follow-up to her highly acclaimed Nordic Connections, finds her positively luminous as she delivers ten self-penned songs that speak to her musical influences and life experience.
A new anthology and art book celebrates the music and art of American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician Norma Tanega – she left an enduring expression of what it means to be free.
Taken from his debut solo album ‘Footwork’, Lewis Wood (Granny’s Attic) premieres his video for ‘Kick Down the Door’ which was written in the Lakeland/Westmorland Clog style and features the fleet-footed dancing of Toby Bennett.
Bristol-based folk musician Tamsin Elliott is also a composer, filmmaker, and co-leader of fusion project Solana. Taken from her forthcoming debut solo album Frey, watch her new video for ‘Lullaby / I Dreamed I Was an Eagle’…musical shinrin yoku.
Jess Jocoy cuts to the heart of universally recognisable emotions, doubts, fears and hopes as she calls on the listener to stare despair in the face and refuse to be its victim.
What Jo Schornikow writes for Altar is, in many ways, like a movie where the images you see last long after the movie is over, and you replay them again and again in your mind.
Christy Moore has shared a live video recording of him performing Black is the Colour at Glasgow’s Barrowlands in 2008. He learned the song from Hamish Imlach who was also a good friend.
Lady Mondegreen is not so radical as to alienate the purists but sufficiently filtered through a contemporary folk lens to attract audiences wanting fresh readings. Fellow Pynins have made a fine contribution to the canon that respects the heritage while ploughing new furrows.
