This July/August, Coleraine’s Damien O’Kane and California’s Ron Block join forces for their first UK tour, showcasing their captivating and singular debut duo album, Banjophony.
Sue Wilson shares her Orkney Folk Festival highlights including Newfoundland’s The Once, Highland fiddle maestro Duncan Chisholm, Findlay Napier, Quebec’s Le Vent du Nord, Fara, The Maes, Ímar, The Chair and more. Another top weekend of superhuman smoothness and cheer.
Watch Follow, the new video from Tui Mamaki, taken from her new Beating Drum released EP which showcases her combination of odd meters and musical styles of traditional Bulgarian music with the English of her native New Zealand.
Watch Precipice – the official music video by The Super Saturated Sugar Strings – The song was inspired by a trip to Point Woronzof in Anchorage, Alaska to visit this daring and unconventional art installation that was a part of the 100 Stone Project.
Jackie Oates has announced the release of her seventh studio album, The Joy of Living. It’s a record that covers an intensely personal period of her life, in which she celebrated the birth of her daughter Rosie and bid an emotional and loving farewell to her beloved father.
Brighton-based quartet Hatful of Rain return with a downpour of riches melding together their Celtic, American and English folk influences that have seen their stock increasingly rise since their debut release back in 2012.
Viva L’Acadie, the new album by The Mallett Brothers Band is a whiskey-soaked old-time Acadian hoedown and everyone’s invited. It’s also a love story to a region and a people – a fading culture caught up in the homogeneity of modern life.
Last night of the UK tour for Portland’s quirky and enduringly engaging folk-pop performer proved a warm and uplifting evening, despite the sense of foreboding and fragility running through new album The Lookout.
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, who now fly under the endearing title of Edgelarks, have revealed a new music video for Yarl’s Wood, our Song of the Day.
It is less than six weeks before the green fields of Wiltshire are transformed into a carnival of music, dance and culture as some of the world’s biggest artists come together and perform at the global party that is WOMAD.
