A consummate artistic triumph that marks a new phase in McQuaid’s career – a mature and hugely confident musical and stylistic progression that deserves to be applauded as such.
An Abandoned Orchid House is a much deeper and richer album than considered at first listening. It is full of personal loss, searching and eventual recognition, survival and even revelation.
We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to Kris Kristofferson’s Special 82nd Birthday London Concert at English Heritage Site (Kenwood House) with Special Guests: Rufus Wainwright, Josh Okeefe, Ashley Campbell and Rose-Lynn Harlan.
Actor turned singer-songwriter Michael Malarkey returns to the UK for his first release on Sheffield’s iconic folk record label, Hudson Records. Self-described as neuva-Americana poetry, listen to the title track Captain Solitaire.
With her new album ‘Hundreds of Days’ set for release this Friday, May 18th, (via Ghostly International), LA-based composer/harpist Mary Lattimore has shared a third and final preview ahead of the record’s release which is also out Tune of the Day.
String Sisters announce tour dates in May – blending Nordic and Celtic traditions into a glorious riot of all-encompassing sound with band members from Shetland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland and the United States.
It has been ten years since his last excursion into the acoustic world of the singer-songwriter; on the strength of his latest album let’s hope that the gap is very much reduced.
Peter shares his highlights of the first ever Walton Folk Festival, a sold-out event with afternoon and evening sessions and a lineup of acts that could grace established folk festivals many times its size.
Watch Na Jurnata ‘e Sole by Gnut, one of the finest young contemporary Italian singer-songwriters, taken from the first in a new discovery EP series from Piers Faccini’s record label Beating Drum.
The big-voiced Belfast-based singer-songwriter Matt McGinn returns with his third studio album ‘The End of the Common Man’, his strongest and most confident step forward to date.
Listen to Lydia Luce’s “Helen”, a song inspired by Mt. St. Helens and the iconic story of Harry R. Truman, who refused to leave the mountain when it was going to explode. In this extension of the story, he is perpetually drawn to the beauty of the destruction she brings.
A shift to more introspective material merely confirms not only his latent talent but also that, with Notes From An Island, his journey as one of our foremost singer-songwriters continues to be in the ascendancy. His most accomplished album so far.
