We continue looking back at music played on Folk Radio UK in years gone by. We revisit December 2010 with music from Jon Boden, Inge Thomson, James Yorkston, Farriers, Alela Diane, Dana Falconberry, Pumajaw, Wooden Wand, Jack Rose, Wheeler Street, LAISH, Lail Arad and many more.
Variety and excellence are key themes in Neil McFadyen’s Top 10 Folk Albums of 2017 including Jiggy, Julie Fowlis, Calan, Twelfth Day, Alaw, Ross Couper and Tom Oakes, Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds and more.
Watch Siren Serenade, the new video and the title track of the debut album release from fast-rising star on the folk scene Emily Mae Winters. The track features the combined a capella vocals of Winters, Lauren Bush, Hannah Sanders and Lauren Parker.
Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2017 including Richard Dawson, Toby Hay, Lisa Knapp, Cape Snow, Allred & Broderick, Tissø Lake, Julie Byrne, Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex and more.
This week’s show is largely Christmas / Winter themed featuring festive music from Johnny Cunningham & Susan McKeown, Maggie Boyle & Gary Boyle, Sufjan Stevens, as well as new music from Kate Rusby, O’Hooley & Tidow, Peatbog Faeries and Damien O’Kane.
We have a great live video to share with you all from Underhill Rose. Their beautiful harmonies, soulful lyrics and charming stage presence have made their UK & Ireland tours very popular. They return next month including Celtic Connections on January 24th.
David Morrison selects his Top 10 albums of 2017 including Aerialists, The Unthanks, This is the Kit, John Moreland, Real Ponchos, Julie Byrne and more. We’ll have more End of Year lists coming soon.
We decide that sticking ‘Songs of the Hollow’, the new album from Irish band cua, into a genre would be pointless and instead sit back and enjoy an album of variety and of voices, of echoes and of influences, and of emotions and passions.
We have a new song to share from Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter Findlay Brown. Home is his first original recording since 2015. A gorgeous melodic folk song that inspires imagery of the most idyllic montage, reminiscing on halcyon days and the intimate comfort of home and family.
Shot on a frozen dawn in South Yorkshire, watch the stunning new video from Leeds / Wakefield four-piece Crake for their new single ‘Little Chef’ which features on a new CPWM Singles Club compilation ‘Come Play with Me’.
Fatoumata Diawara releases new video “Djonya” (Slavery) to denounce the atrocities perpetrated against the migrants coming mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and on the other hand to provide a glimmer of hope to all those who are victims of these modern times.
Almost four years since the release of their debut album, the Glasgow sextet, James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band, return with a solid and harder-edged set of guitar-driven alt-country.
