On Nick Hart latest offering, his effortless phrasing, the clarity and simplicity of the song, the voice, the guitar, entrap the listener and pull us into the timeless – then and now – world of the folk song. Excellent again.
Whilst Tanbark are a new name to me, it was the beautiful strummed opening of this track and Chloe Nelson’s vocals that hooked me right away. Take a listen to Heart-Shaped Locket from their new album.
Scottish duo Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach release Air Iomall on August 9, a suite of new music born from a journey to now uninhabited islands deep in the North Atlantic – some of Scotland’s most remote and remarkable places.
Cork-based illustrator and designer Craig Carry talks to Folk Radio UK about his latest creations – two screen prints inspired by Planxty’s “As I Roved Out”.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Song of the Lower Classes’, performed live by Anglo-American duo Cath and Phil Tyler. The song features on their album The Ox and the Ax.
Folk Radio UK’s Johnny Whalley headed to Ibiza for Costa Del Folk recently and kept a festival diary whilst there. Read part one featuring Efrén López Trio, Show of Hands, Seth Lakeman, The Outside Track and more.
In the Felice Brothers’ third album, Undress, you can hear some of Bruce Springsteen’s desperately yearning pathos, a Gothic darkness related to the rugged beauty of their home upstate New York, the boundless energy of early punk rock, and a thorough mastery of Americana…
David Weir catches Rachel & Becky Unthanks and Niopha Keegan at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on their ‘As We Are’ tour, an unadorned acapella trio performance. An evening which demonstrates not only their breadth of repertoire but the depth of their poetic expression and interests.
Our Song of the Day comes from The Little Unsaid with Human (Live at Silk Mill), the first song of the new album Atomise which is also one of you Featured Albums of the Month.
Cricket Blue’s lyrics and influences are beautifully couched and lovingly incorporated, resulting in a fresh sounding, true delight of an album that fully deserves to provide the serotiny to see the duo blossom from germination into full radiant bloom.
