Young Waters’ debut offers strong vocals, sweet-toned harmonies, stirring instrumentation with melodies and rhythms that alternate from intricate to exhilarating, and all stations in between. In short – innovative, enthralling and enchanting.
Something To Be Won is undoubtedly Clark’s own distinct vision. offering an atmosphere that is immediately both tenderly light and poignantly heavy; the treasured glimpse of a favourite landscape; the slow creak of a day passing us by.
Barry and Laura have together made a scrapbook of their life in traditional music and it is truly lovely. There are no airs or graces, no production gymnastics, just a unique snapshot of how these siblings will forever be joined through a living tradition that they themselves have now passed on.
Watch the brilliant new video from Welsh traditional band Allan Yn Y Fan for Gorthrwm y Gweithiwr which the band believes to be the first ever recording of the mid-19th-century protest ballad. Don’t miss them on their Bridges not Walls Tour.
Watch ‘No Place Like Home’, an ode to home and Scotland which was filmed at various beautiful locations in Stirlingshire. It’s the opening track and debut single from Martha L. Healy’s new album ‘Keep The Flame Alight’.
Hartlepool Folk Festival has a fantastic lineup this year as well as a series of special events including a commission to bring The Bishoprick Garland to life through stories, songs, music and dance with the help of some well-known folkie faces.
Inspired by life on the road together, Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay announce collaborative album The Hawksworth Grove Sessions – Duets for 6 & 12 String Guitar. Listen to the track Night, Moon, Dance.
Kitty Macfarlane’s Namer Of Clouds sets her apart as a singular songwriting talent. It is an album to savour, a debut full of old wisdom and bubbling over with new ideas.
Some 44 years later, Earth Recordings opens the door to Bagpuss & Co. once again, revealing for the first time the original music in all its newly-mastered splendour featuring Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner’s superb musicianship.
Among the many great performances at this year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival was a performance of The Train by Show of Hands who were joined by Dayam Khan, a member of Dhun Dhora of Rajasthan who were at the festival performing with Shooglenifty.
Watch the new video from The Poozies – Soaking In The Bathtub – sung in her ‘grittily stunning’ Orcadian burr and accompanied by a strikingly original and unpretentious video, beautifully filmed on the island of Eigg.
Hot on the heels of their new album Queen City Jubilee, Canadian bluegrass band The Slocan Ramblers return to the UK next month to showcase their unique blend of bluegrass, old-time and folk.
