Folk pop auteur Dana Gavanski returns with a brand new single today and a glimpse of what’s to come with her new album due next year. It’s called Letting Go.
Having opened for Spiers and Boden on their extensive Fallow Ground Tour, the New Year brings a new tour for Lady Nade as she tours her third album ‘Willing’.
Tightrope is the long-awaited second solo album from Joe Tilston, one which concerns walking that tightrope between despair and hope, as such, it casts Tilston very much as folk’s answer to Charles Blondin.
It’s been a long 14 years since South Yorkshire’s Kate Green’s first and last release. A Dark Carnival marks a very welcome long-awaited return, to take her place among this country’s finest folk singers.
Sophia Djebel Rose, France’s priestess of psychedelic folk returns in March with a new album. Taken from Métempsycose, watch her video for Vénus…”if Botticcelli’s Venus could sing, this is what she would sing”.
The fourth SEALL Festival of Small Halls kicks off officially on Friday 19 November featuring Mary Macmaster (Poozies), Angus MacKenzie (Daìmh), Ewan Robertson (Breabach), Seán Gray (Paul McKenna Band), Megan Henderson (Breabach), Inge Thomson, Marie Fielding and Mairearad Green.
This month, experience the ’Ten Steps’ UK tour with Max ZT (“Jimi Hendrix of hammered dulcimer”) and Dan Whitehouse. Watch their ‘Ten Steps’ video, the title track of their collaborative EP and also our Song of the Day.
Glasgow-based Gaelic singer Deirdre Graham launches Gaelic Song Stories, a six part podcast series featuring notable Gaelic singers Margaret Bennett, Kirsteen Graham, Rachel Newton and Gillebride MacMillan, as well as antiquarian bookseller Gilleasbuig Ferguson.
Described by Dónal Lunny as ‘one of the most important traditional singers to emerge out of Ireland in the last decade’, this month, two times BBC Folk Award-winning Dublin singer and musician Daoirí Farrell heads out on tour across the UK.
Margo Cilker’s taken her time readying this grander entrance onto the Americana stage. Pohorylle is one of the year’s finest debuts, that stage is hers for the taking.
Featuring Adam Ross, Josienne Clarke, The Burning Hell, The Magic Lantern, Tunng, Devin Hoff, Mr Alec Bowman_Clarke, Freedom To Roam, Henry Parker, James Yorkston, Jacken Elswyth, Eoghan Neff and more.
Jethro Tull have announced details for the group’s first studio album of new material in over 18 year titled ‘The Zealot Gene’. Watch the video for first single from the album, titled ‘Shoshana Sleeping’, accompanied by a stunning visual created by Thomas Hicks.
