Norwegian record label Hubro is dedicated to jazz and folk-based music that is immersive, improvisational, and uncompromising. Benedicte Maurseth ticks all those boxes, and Hárr swells with a quiet beauty and bites with a keen experimental edge.
Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones’ “A year too late and a month too soon’ is traditional folk music at its most beguiling. An immersive album on which the songs are centre stage, performed by two of Yorkshire’s finest, delivered with absolute conviction and palpable charm.
Rachel Baiman and Kris Drever have announced a co-billed tour this spring across the UK. This week they are releasing a new single, a stunning remake of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Hard Times in Babylon”. The accompanying video premieres on Folk Radio UK.
Taken from his new album, You and I Must Be Out of My Mind, Folk-Americana singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dietrich Strause shares his stunning new video for ‘Call to Me’, a song with a delicate gauze-like quality, evoking both tenderness and fragility.
Featuring Charley Crockett, Marlon Williams, Nina Simone, The Railsplitters, Angel Olsen, Sunny War, Molly Tuttle, Shakey Graves, Edward Sharpe, Sufjan Stevens, Abigail Lapell, Tia Blake, Micah P Hinson and more.
Filmed in the late summer of 2021 in a field near the Gate To Southwell Folk Festival, watch John Spiers and Jon Boden performing Bailey Hill / Wittenham Clumps from their latest album ‘Fallow Ground’. The duo are on tour in June.
After a two year hiatus, Karl Culley makes a welcome return with his cathartic Redshift. The EP precedes a full-length album planned for release later this year.
Bristol-based folk duo Fritillaries release their beautiful new single ‘Unearthing’ today, accompanied by a stunning video by Giulia Franchi which we have the pleasure of sharing on Folk Radio today.
Mags’ 21st is the funky new roots single from Corner House, a young American quartet with Scottish ties featuring Orkney-born fiddler Louise Bichan, mandolin player Ethan Setiawan, cellist Casey Murray and guitarist Ethan Hawkins.
The Breath, Thea Gilmore, Edward II, 3 Daft Monkeys, Amythyst Kiah, Lady Nade, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and The Haar are among the latest artists to join the line-up for this summer’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival.
Alex Rex announces new poetry/drone record “Mouthful Of Earth” featuring music from Richard Youngs, Alastair Galbraith & Lavinia Blackwall. Listen to the first cut from the album ‘Wastwater’ – “…a love letter written in light. It was inspired by the uncanny valleys of the Lake District.”
Magpies members Bella Gaffney and Holly Brandon are playing a short tour together in late April, Bella solo and Holly in her side project Painted Sky with her brother George.
