This month finds the Brewery Arts Centre rolling back the years to the heady days of its famous folk festival with a brand new event featuring Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, Dervish, Rura and more.
Solarference have intuitively constructed a thorny and challenging set of pieces that amply repays any measure of the effort expended in getting to know their music. The ghosts of the past continue to inform the present, which in turn haunts the future.
Listen to the brand new single ‘Flowers’ from critically acclaimed folk quintet, Patch & The Giant, taken from their debut album, ‘All That We Had, We Stole’ due out early next year.
This month at Cecil Sharp House there is a very special Tribute Concert to John Renbourn that will include Ben Watt and Bernard Butler, Clive Carroll, Dariush Kanani, Graham Coxon, Jacqui McShee, Josienne Clark and Ben Walker, Ralph McTell, Rob Armstrong, Wizz Jones and more.
Watch the video premiere for ‘Old Heartache’ from North Wales trio The Goat Roper Rodeo Band. The song features on their new album Cosmic Country Blue due for release in early October.
Some duos are just meant to happen and this is certainly one we’re pleased did. Emma Tricca & Jason Mcniff provide our Song of the Day from their new album Southern Star released tomorrow.
Shirley Collins returns to recording after 38 years with a new album on Domino Records titled Lodestar. Listen the first track to be shared – ‘Cruel Lincoln’, an ancient ballad. Lodestar is released on November 4th.
We have the great pleasure of sharing with you the new video for ‘High Germany’ from the London-based 4-piece folk band Ranagri. The track features on their new album ‘Voices’.
Sam Lee talks to Folk Radio UK about his forthcoming appearance at Wren Music’s Baring-Gould Folk Weekend and Song School in Devon – an event which, it seems, is tailor-made for him.
The Nest Collective kick off a nautical-themed night onboard the Cutty Sark on 24th September. Shanty Sessions will feature Lisa Knapp, Emily Mae Winters, Ceilidh Liberation Front, City Shanty Band and more.
These Walls is the stunning debut single by the British-Portuguese musician Nessi Gomes, a composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty. Watch the video premiere here on Folk Radio UK.
One of the highlights of this year’s FolkEast Festival was Ushers Island whose lineup reads like an Irish traditional music hall of fame: Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle.
