Featuring Adrian Crowley, Jeb Loy Nichols, Wilco, Kevin Morby, Brigid Mae Power, Charlie Parr, Anna & Elizabeth, Saint Sister and Lisa Hannigan, Blick Bassy & Piers Faccini, Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsburg, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek & more.
John Blek shares the video for ‘Long Strand’, the lead single from his highly anticipated forthcoming album on which he is joined by Kris Drever, Cheyenne Mize, Kit Downes, as well as regular collaborators Davie Ryan and Brian Casey.
Watch the exquisite new video for “Waiting (To The Riverside)”, the latest single from Berlin-based Irish/Norwegian singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle and Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese.
Walton Folk Festival announce their return on 11 September. With a lineup featuring Trials of Cato, Jacob and Drinkwater, Gilmore & Roberts, Kim Lowings, Jenn & Laura-Beth and Odette Michell, it promises to be another great day.
Tarren is a fantastic new English folk project featuring Bristol-based artists Sid Goldsmith, Alex Garden and Danny Pedler. Watch them performing English folk ballad Rigs of the Time; an outstanding performance that lives up to the title of ambassadors for high quality, English Folk music.
The Folk Effect returns on 16 June at 7pm featuring some of the finest names in UK folk, including Ríoghnach Connolly, Kate Young, Ellie Gowers, Lisa Knapp, Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Jackie Oates.
The much loved Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg have teamed up with Matt Sweeney and Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy to present the “Watch What Happens” b/w “Stay On My Shore” digital single.
For their latest single, The Folkatron Sessions are joined by Sam Lee for ‘Three Galleys’, a classic tale of kidnap and warfare which sounds equally intricate as it does effortless and intuitive – this is cutting edge folk music.
The Weather Station is excited to finally announce a North American and European tour in support of her latest album ‘Ignorance’, out now via Fat Possum. The Ignorance tour will present Lindeman’s sophisticated new sound performed by a full band.
Chloe Foy’s long-awaited debut album “Where Shall We Begin” is an introspective and nuanced work, touching on themes of life and loss, love and fear – a heartbreaking journey that ends in love and light.
John McMahon interviews Simon Costin, Founder/Director of the Museum of British Folklore, about “Ritual Britain”, a spellbinding new exhibition on British calendar customs – a collaboration between the museum and the artist Ben Edge which is running at London’s Crypt Gallery now.
Josienne Clarke shares video for ‘Sit Out’, a gutsy and defiant new single taken from her forthcoming new album “A Small Unknowable Thing” which takes in a wide range of new and diverse influences. It’s also our Song of the Day.