Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn both defy the traditional definition of a guitarist/cellist so news of a collaborative album called STIR, partially inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf, will send welcome ripples across the lake…check out their video for the album opener, Hermine.
While at Sidmouth Folk Festival, Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke were led to one of Sidmouth’s iconic seafront shelters, where they performed “What Can May Come” from their debut album “Count the Wicked.”
Listen to Storyline, the new single from Stone Irr, taken from his forthcoming sophomore album Performance due out September 20, 2019 via Darling Recordings.
Jon Boden has revealed that he has contributed a song for a text-based role-playing game (for iOS, Mac and PC) based around the legend of Robin Hood. Listen to “Living in the Greenwood”.
Kyle Wall who performs under the name of Wharfer recorded and produced his latest album The Teeth directly before and after a move from Brooklyn to Seattle. Listen to album track Myrtle Beach.
Last week, Real World Records released a 10th-anniversary edition of 9Bach’s self-titled debut album, watch Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland performing an acoustic version of welsh folk song Pontypridd. They are touring the album for the first time in October.
Our Tune of the Day comes from the incredible Cormac Begley & Liam O’Connor performing Craig’s pipes and the Foxhunter reel live at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Together they reinforce the notion that we are in a golden age of Irish traditional music.
Our Song of the Day is “I Courted A Wee Girl” by Irish duo Ye vagabonds. The video is an excerpt from “Seven Songs On Six Islands” a documentary by Myles O’Reilly, filmed during their tour of some of Ireland’s most picturesque islands.
Hootie & The Blowfish announce new album ‘Imperfect Circle’, their UK & Ireland your for which kicks off in October. Their recent US leg resulted in “the highest attendance figures of their career”.
Glasgow-based folk band Gnoss are on the road again this Autumn including gigs in Manchester, Sheffield, Oxford, London and more. Watch a live video of them performing at Festival Interceltique de Lorient.
Last year saw the release of You Never Were Much of a Dancer, the debut album from Welsh-born American primitivist Gwenifer Raymond. Watch her performing “Idumea” from the album, live in session at Sidmouth.
To mark their 30th Anniversary, Real World Records have released an album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Concert from 1985 alongside a re-issue of the Grammy-nominated “Night Song” on Vinyl for the first time.
