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.
The Mining Co., the musical project of Ireland born, London based singer/songwriter Michael Gallagher, releases a Christmas single. Watch the accompanying video for Last Stop for Tired Reindeer, sprinkled throughout with vintage technicolour nostalgia.
Elliott is living proof that a well-timed whisper can often be more consequential than a shout, and on December songs he takes that aesthetic to its quietly impressive limit. It is hard to see how this album could have come out any better.
We Are The Monsters is a new project featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee. The results promise to be boundary pushing and quite electrifying -a new celtic folk fusion sound.
This week’s Folk Show features some of the best in British Folk, including Ray Fisher, Jim Ghedi, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Simpson Cutting Kerr, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Steve Tilston, Songs Of Separation, LAU, Eliza Carthy, Brìghde Chaimbeul & more.
EFDSS is delighted to announce that Eliza Carthy MBE has agreed to become its next President. Eliza takes over the honorary post from Shirley Collins. Angeline Morrison and Arti Prashar have also been appointed as board members.
Ben Gazur, author of ‘A Feast of Folklore – From witch cake to wassailing, strange stories of Britain’s food’ talks to us about ‘Soul Cakes’. If you have prepared for Allhallowstide then you will have a pile of Soul Cakes ready to reward the singers.
Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh are a new all-female close harmony folk trio that brings together the exciting talents of Odette Michell, Karen Pfeiffer and Daria Kulesh. Watch the accompanying video for their debut single The Cossack’s Bride.
ITMA take us behind the scenes of Lisa O’Neill’s research into Arthur Griffith, as she prepares for Treaty: Songs at the NCH in December – a Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Watch South East London-based singer songwriter Luca Wilding in a mesmerising live performance of ‘Nobody Game’ from his new EP ‘Book of Fate’, which is out now.
With Shared Notes, Martin Hayes has written an engrossing book that illuminates his life-long musical purpose, where his music fits in the multi-faceted world of Irish traditional music, and how he overcame the bumps in the road along that journey.
