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.
An impressive step up from her debut, Rachel Baiman’s “Cycles” is bristling with confidence. Open and honest in its feelings, the album offers an insight into the dynamic of reconciling ambitions with the needs of a personal life.
The enticing combination of Ó hEadhra’s sensitive playing and NicChoinnich’s delightfully sweet vocals, rightly identified as one of the finest Gaelic singers on the scene today, is hard to resist. Càirdeas is a rather gorgeous album, a genuinely soothing and captivating listen.
Go By Feel is the much-anticipated debut by The Hello Darlins. With their mix of Canadian and American influences, they call their sound North Americana; you might just settle for spellbinding.
Justin Sullivan’s “Surrounded” is an album you need to spend time with…there’s a depth of emotion, despair and hope, darkness and light that captures both the isolation of lockdown but also the sense of a universal bond that it has awoken.
Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Katherine Priddy, The Breath, Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, Peter Doran and Haley Heynderickx, Adrian Crowley, TRÚ, Fishclaw, Alula Down, HAV & Iona Fyfe, Little Arrow and Khasi-Cymru Collective.
