The second in our new series of Isolation mixes featuring The Innocence Mission, Aldous Harding, Willy Tea Taylor, Marissa Nadler, Sharron Kraus, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clem Snide, Emmylou Harris, Jessica Pratt, Iron & Wine and lots more.
The Wilderness Yet is folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Watch the accompanying video for the title track of their debut album.
Watch Dean Owens performing his new song ‘Hope’, written in response to the “nation’s round of applause for the NHS and frontline workers who are working so hard to protect us during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Filmed by video, filmmaker and director Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns, watch Anna Mieke performing Warped Window live from a dockyard in Dublin. The song is taken from her album ‘Idle Mind’.
A compelling listen from beginning to end. Here, the inordinate beauty of Appalachian old-time and chamber music melds together inextricably to deliver one of the most enchanting and satisfying albums I’m bound to hear this year.
Featuring the new tracks from Gigspanner Big Band, Salt House, John Doyle, Watkins Family Hour, Amy LaVere, Serious Child, Eliza Carthy and Ultan Conlon. Plus music from Bob Dylan, John Prine, Dave Rawlings Machine, Great Lake Swimmers, Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini and lots more.
Watch Bread and Roses, the latest single from Scottish singer-songwriter Kat Healy – a joyful collaboration with Scottish singer Karina Smillie. The single was released in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Watch Two-time GRAMMY®-nominated folk singer, songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson in a special Folk Radio UK Session performing two songs from her new album, 2020, set for release next week (April 10th) on Red House Records.
The enigmatic wordplay of Nels Andrews’ beautiful 4th album, Pigeon and the Crow, is a creation possessing many of the same qualities as Midlake and Spheeris records. In the field of literary folk music, Pigeon and the Crow certainly is a winner.
Watch Egyptian Princess by The Servants’ Ball (Rob Harbron, Ben Paley, Ben Nicholls, Evan Jenkins, Julian Hinton) – a nod to the era of Egyptomania which started in the Victorian era and peaked in the 1920s with the discovery of Tutankhamun.
Sadly, Sidmouth Folk Festival has been cancelled for 2020 but plans are already underway for the 2021 Festival in which you can expect so much of what the festival audiences love about this grand old Festival.
