Our latest Folk Show features Elephant Sessions, Rowan Rheingans, Crooked Weather, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee, Green Ribbons, Aidan O’Rourke, Dick Gaughan, The Clutha, Aidan Connolly, Pentangle, The Brothers Gillespie and more.
Today marks the release of TYAGARAH, the new single from Elephant Sessions, the profits from which all go to World Elephant Day. Watch the accompanying video which features footage from the award-winning feature documentary film “When Elephants Were Young”.
After two albums and several hugely successful tours, The Pitmen Poets (Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Jez Lowe) prepare to release their farewell album to accompany their 23 date farewell tour.
The Orphan Brigade head to the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland for inspiration for their new and aptly titled album “To the Edge of the World.” Watch the video for their first single ‘The Banshee’, also our Song of the Day.
Watch ‘Wheels Of The World’, the title track of the new album from English folk trio Granny’s Attic. A song of Irish origin, it takes the listener on a vivid tour of the early 19th-century European political landscape which remains relevant to today’s political climate.
“Dare”, Banter’s second album, is an equally polished showcase for the talents of three accomplished, adventurous musicians featuring Simon Care, Tim Walker and Nina Zella – they started out as a ceilidh band with a few songs, now they’re a concert band who can play ceilidhs.
Illinois-based contemporary roots-bluegrass-Americana five-piece Old Salt Union return with their fourth album ‘Where The Dogs Don’t Bite’. Produced by Alison Brown, the album brings out the best in the band and plays to their strengths.
The first live review coverage of Cambridge Folk Festival is in – featuring Ben Caplan, The Rails, Ralph McTell, Graham Nash, Tunng, Chloe Foy, Lisa O’Neill, Lucinda Williams, Nick Mulvey, Richard Thompson, Crooked Weather, Daoiri Farrell’s All-Star Celtic Session and more.
Listen to ‘Common Clay’, the new single from Alasdair Roberts, taken from his forthcoming new album The Fiery Margin. He is joined here by guest vocalist Mary Hampton & Neil Sutcliffe on accordion alongside his trio of ‘friends’: Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones.
Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.
The HawtThorns are an L.A. duo comprising singer-songwriter KP (downsized from Kirsten Proffit), formerly of Calico, and guitarist Johnny Hawthorn, both of whom have solo albums under their belt.
