Featuring Lebanese singer Pôl Seif and European instrumentalists, Mòlo Sâyat’s music is both chimeric and celebratory, featuring Arabic, Italian and Romani language and a fusion of musical styles; these are players of the highest order. We look forward to the next chapter.
Analog Africa really is a gift that keeps on giving. Essiebons Special 1973- 1984, celebrating the legendary Ghanaian producer Dick Essilfie-Bondzie, is yet another powerhouse release. Whether you are new to Afrobeat/Afrofunk/ Highlife or already an aficionado, this album is well-worth seeking out.
On Wednesday, 15th December, Mark Radcliffe will be joined on his Folk Show by fellow folk presenters Lynette Fay, Bruce MacGregor and Frank Hennessy to make a radio tour of the UK, toasting the best music, moments and events of 2021.
Previously known as Rainy Day Woman, Hannah Pawson and Gabriel Wynne relaunch as Fritillaries and share new single ‘Working Late’, a brooding song of anger and frustration about the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.
We shine the spotlight on French duo Cocanha (Lila Fraysse & Caroline Dufau), who sing in Occitan, a beautifully poetic yet endangered language. Their latest album, Puput, is one of the most adventurous folk music albums we’ve heard in some time.
Much of this week’s show features DIY, outsider folk music. Featuring: Sutari, Jrpjej, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Sourdure, Stick in the Wheel, Burd Ellen, Angeline Morrison, Cocanha, Leyla McCalla, Aronde, Maurice Louca, Piers Faccini and the Khagaudzh Ensemble.
While Shade perhaps doesn’t quite possess the textural warmth of Paradise Valley or hypnotic pull of Dragging a Dead Deer, its greater clarity and confidence offers a glimmer of hope that is perhaps unprecedented in Harris’ previous music as Grouper.
Today, Icelandic singer-songwriter Arny Margret releases her beautiful and eagerly anticipated debut single ‘intertwined’ via One Little Independent Records.
Taken from his new album Good and Green Again, Jake Xerxes Fussell shares two new songs – traditional song ‘Breast of Glass’ and instrumental with vocables ‘Frolic’. He tours the UK in May 2022.
Featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, The Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee, watch the premiere of ‘Trouser Worrier’, the first single of We Are The Monsters.
Fresh from an exhilarating sold-out show at Whelan’s in Dublin and a double award-winning appearance at the 2021 RTE Folk Awards, John Francis Flynn today announces his first solo show at Vicar Street, Dublin alongside extensive UK tour dates.
We rewind the clock to 1974 and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Watch archive footage featuring Planxty, Loudon Wainwright III, Arlo Guthrie and more. From the canvas tents to the impromptu laid-back performances, this short video is dripping in gorgeous folk nostalgia.
