We recently announced that Martha Tilston is to release her new album NOMAD via Squiggly Records on May 12th. We have the pleasure in premiering her beautiful new video for Nomad Blood which was filmed in Cornwall.
It’s been a while since we had any news on Cameron J Niven, so it’s with great pleasure we’re able to share his new single Indigo Hue, due for release on 27th February.
Alasdair Roberts reveals his new video for ‘Pangs,’ the title track of his new album due for release tomorrow. Also don’t miss his UK and Ireland tour dates on which he’s joined by Stevie Jones and Alex Neilson.
Hands Up for Trad and Creative Scotland have joined forces once again to launch song writing competition – Nòs Ùr. Gaelic and Scots song writers have the chance to win £500 and one-on-one mentoring with an established song writer – all they have to do is apply via the Hands Up for Trad website.
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival have unveiled the first names for 2017 including Badly Drawn Boy, Lady Maisery, Martha Tilston, Blue Rose Code, This is the Kit, Curtis Eller’s American Circus & many more.
For his latest release ‘No Rain, No Rose,’ John Craigie decided to make an album about Portland and his life there. He’s joined by a collection of local musicians, among them The Shook Twins and Gregory Alan Isakov.
Trimdon Grange Explosion are made up of four core members of The Eighteenth Day Of May and for those of us who enjoyed that original LP it is a pleasure to report that the new band have picked up pretty much where the old one left off.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Sarah McQuaid is hard at work writing songs for her new album, to be produced by none other than folk icon Michael Chapman who she met when they both performed at Village Pump Festival in 2014.
On Enter the Kingdom, their fifth album, Frontier Ruckus offers an invitation to visit and explore suburban American homes. It’s a wistful reflection on a vanished past and childhood innocence.
Listen to The Food of Love Project, dedicated to Shakespeare’s legacy and featuring the likes of Alasdair Roberts, Kirsty Law, Rob St John, Dead Rat Orchestra, Stornoway, Thomas Truax, David Thomas Broughton and more.
Shirley Collins’ Lodestar performance at the Barbican is fresh and contemporary and avant-garde at times. The assembled musicians are nothing short of brilliant, the arrangements are in turns atmospheric, joyous, stirring and thrilling.
Brigitte DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough record as a duo for the first time with Mockingbird Soul, a stripped-back collection of blues, gospel, folk, country and early jazz. A fine album of understated but expertly crafted musicianship.
