Sidmouth Folk Festival has announced the first names for 2020 including Show of Hands, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Eddi Reader, Home Service (with John Tams), Eliza Carthy including pre-festival shows featuring Steeleye Span and The Fisherman’s Friends.
While Chapman’s Pool may at first appear to be a sparse and spartan affair, don’t be fooled, it is a memorable debut which, dynamically, is often sweeping and expansive. A wonderful EP that you should all seek out.
Autumn Shades Of Gold, the recording debut of Welsh singer-songwriter Osian Rhys, is a thing of grace, elegance and beauty, bringing a welcome warm breath of folk-psych air to the rapidly falling winter temperatures.
On her latest single, Mary Chapin Carpenter reflects on the passing of time with “Our Man Walter Cronkite”, named after the CBS Evening News anchorman who was called “the most trusted man in America”.
The winners of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards emerged last night at Aberdeen Music Hall in a live-broadcast ceremony. Winners included Kinnaris Quintet, Breabach, Mary Ann Kennedy, Blazin’ Fiddles and more.
Featuring new music from Kate Rusby, Dàibhidh Stiùbhard, Franc Cinelli, Smith & McClennan, Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Genevieve Charbonneau, Wayward Jane, Varo, Lady Nade, David O’Dowda and more
Confronting the demons, celebrating her mother but recognising that her troubled father, Allison Moorer has emerged into the light, bringing with her the finest music of her career to date.
Ben Walker is to join forces with Kirsty Merryn for a new project titled Life and the Land, a celebration of England’s harvest tradition, reimagining songs born out of our agricultural past.
Watch the new video from London-based Folk musician Ned Roberts for his new single Wrong Side Of You (out today), a song about travelling to escape – yet your mind is still inexorably drawn back home.
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival reveal first names including Drever McCusker Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Magpie Arc, The Demon Barbers XL, The Breath, Jackie Oates & John Spiers, Monster Ceilidh Band, Salt House, Topette!! and more
At the end of the day perhaps The Inevitable Train Wreck isn’t so inevitable. Hope is where you find it and for Beans on Toast it’s there if you look hard enough and work for change. How do you like them beans?
