The Americana Music Association UK announce nominees for this year’s UK Americana Awards including a Trailblazer Award for Mumford and Son and a Lifetime achievement award for Robert Plant.
Gate to Southwell Festival announces names for 2018 including Lindisfarne, The Young’uns, Cara Dillon, Habadekuk, John Smith, Kris Drever, Nine Below Zero, The Lil’ Jimmy Reed Band and more.
A small rural church, a disused airfield, an old railway wagon, and the winding room of a former colliery – these are the intriguing sites that provide the backdrop for a new documentary from Harp and a Monkey.
Prog-folk quintet Aerialists release their debut full-length album Group Manoeuvres in the UK this month. To celebrate, they are touring in the UK for the first time including Celtic Connections.
Texas-based singer-songwriter Keegan McInroe returns with his fifth album on which he more often than not goes straight for the jugular with untempered, visceral lyrics – Political and entertaining, he is an artist with something to say.
Our song of the Day comes from Amsterdam singer songwriter VanWyck. An Average Woman is the title track of her new album due for release on January 19th via Maiden Name Records.
We talk to David Harrington about the Kronos Quartet project Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a string quartet commissioning, performance, education, and legacy project of unprecedented scope and potential impact.
Here is a different, experimental and immersive experience from Bare Bones that is full of the elements of folk, acoustic and world music, full of the elemental, and full of body, shape and texture. Well worth the listen – and do touch the exhibits.
Mike Davies shares his top 10 albums of 2017 including The Young’uns whose album makes a solid claim to being the folk album of the year and Hannah Aldridge whose album he declares is “one of my platinum-plated favourites of the year.”
There is nothing else quite like The Transports in the world of folk music, and this new version is even more ambitious than the original. The perfect combination of song and story that is a fitting tribute to its hugely talented and much-missed creator.
Mad Martins a genuinely stimulating cultural artefact, born of an inspired collaboration of like-minded creative artists. It depicts the lives of the three Martin brothers, born in the late18th century in the South Tyne area of Northumberland.
We caught up with Kate Rusby while on her Christmas tour, she reflects on what’s behind these special celebrations, the family and friends who take part, and her approach to the music itself. We also talk about her glittering, fun-filled new album Angels and Men and share her new video.
