As advance tickets are already selling fast for many of Sidmouth Folkweek’s Pre-Festival specials we take a look at some of the other top names performing at the Ham and Bulverton roots dance party nights.
27-time Grammy Award winner Alison Krauss recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, delivering a stellar live version of the title track of her brand new album, ‘Windy City’, which is out now on Decca/Capitol.
On Swimming in Mercury, Boo Hewerdine offers lush arrangements, affectionate homages to different musical styles from the years gone by, and a mix of playfulness and quiet poignancy in the lyrics. An eloquent album.
On his new album, Taking the Long Way Home, Canadian singer/songwriter Richard Laviolette combines roots/country/gospel music with earthy/organic musical accompaniment to deliver a heart-warming, energising album. Food for the soul.
Watch the latest video from Alex Rex (Alex Neilson / Trembling Bells) for Lucy, a song taken from his debut solo album Vermillion which is out now on Tin Angel Records.
With their self-titled album now released into the big wide world, The Harmed Brothers reveal their new video for ‘In the wind’ which was filmed in newly opened Morehouse Barbers, in the North Portland neighbourhood of St. Johns.
Beinn Alba marks a slight change for Scottish folk singer Davy Holt as he shares his self-penned songs for the first time. While he may not come festooned with the reverence accorded to fellow contemporary Scottish folk acts his music is no less worthy of recognition.
The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, a new project featuring Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. It draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock.
Taken from their latest album ‘Fences’ watch Bombadil in a live and intimate session performing ‘Perfect’ at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, North Carolina. Fences is out now on Ramseur Records.
If Lindsay Straw’s debut album, “sounds like no one but herself,” then her second album ‘The Fairest Flower of Womankind’ imparts that authenticity to the voices of women whose stories speak to a new generation.
Anna Coogan’s ‘The Lonely Cry of Space & Time’ isn’t an album you approach on a casual basis, you need to work with it to form a relationship, but once you do, it’s one that will last.
Aizle are one of the latest among the new crop of exciting young folk/traditional bands from Manchester’s thriving Celtic music scene. They definitely offer something different as their classical and jazz backgrounds meld with a hugely enjoyable bunch of Irish and Scottish traditional tunes.
