There’s been a four-year gap since Skerryvore’s last studio album and the quality and mix of material that now appears on EVO shows it has been time well spent. A very firm reminder that they’re just as much at home in the recording studio as they are on the road.
WOMEX – the World Music Expo, have announced that the world-famous Kronos Quartet are to receive the 2018 WOMEX Artist Award and will conclude WOMEX 18 with a live concert in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Today marks the release of Joy’s Reflection is Sorrow, the new album from Sharron Kraus which we’re celebrating with the premiere of her music video for the title track.
Due for release on August 3rd via Island records, A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan is a compilation that marks the 50th anniversary since the original 12-track Basement Tapes acetate of Dylan arrived in London.
This willingness to engage – emotionally and physically, with internal and external landscapes – is what sets Toby Hay apart from virtually everyone else currently making instrumental folk music. The Longest Day is a triumph, a thing of shimmering beauty.
Now in its ninth year, Bath Folk Festival runs from 11th – 19th August 2018 featuring John Doyle, Rory McLeod, Dipper/Malkin, Georgia Lewis, Johnny Coppin, Beth Porter and more.
Watch ‘My Baby’ the latest video from Glasgow singer/songwriter Jill Jackson. The song features on her 5th Studio album ‘Are We There Yet?’ which was produced by Boo Hewerdine.
Watch Jamie Lockhart of Mi Mye performing a tune and song from his latest project ‘A Romantic Destination’ which saw him reimagining music from a book of songs that has been passed down by his family in Skerray in the Highlands for 166 years.
With their new Anchor album already out and having the critics dishing out stars liberally, we met with the peerless mother and daughter duo to discuss the recording of the project, musical censorship and making a follow-up.
Like a musical version of the photographer Robert Frank, the songs on Gabriel Kahane’s new album are intended as a kind of loose diary of a train journey – a portrait of America at a time of profound national turbulence. Watch the accompanying video for November.
Our Song of the Day comes from Seattle-based singer-songwriter Katie Kuffel. Whilst she has a background in classical cello and jazz piano her innovative musical creations draw on blues, jazz and folk music.
