We head off to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival tomorrow for another great Bank Holiday weekend. Highlights include Villagers, Eliza Carthy’s Wayward Band, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman and many more. Come and join us!
Comrad is a Connecticut-based folk, singer-songwriter. “1000 Lives” is the third song from Comrad’s upcoming EP, 10 Feet Away, slated for release September 2016.
Johnny shares some of his highlights and interviews from this year’s Wickham Festival including Blazin’ Fiddles, Mawkin, Skerryvore, Saltfishforty, Mischa Macpherson Trio, Lynched, Ewan McLennan and more.
We have a track premiere from two-time Juno award-winning Canadian Americana singer-songwriter Jenny Whiteley. 100 Dollars is from her new record The Original Jenny Whiteley, which releases on September 16, 2016.
Our Song of the Day is from folk singer-songwriter Rob Richings. Watch the video premiere for ‘Ten Seconds’, a song written when he was very ill, inspired by the first ten seconds of the day when everything is okay, before reality kicks in.
Symbiosis sees Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton bring their musical intuition and unity to the studio in a collection of tune sets that expertly brings their combined skills as composers, multi-instrumentalists, and arrangers to an eager audience.
The Golden Hum featured the transcendent vocal and sparse instrumentation of Brigid Mae Power, Gareth Dickson’s graceful songs and mesmerising finger-picked guitar; and event organiser Constant Follower’s début live performance.
Our Tune of the Day is from Paul James who many of you will know as a member of Blowzabella. Wakeful is from his forthcoming new album The Drowned Lover & Other Dark Tales which is due for release in September 2016.
Watch the new video for ‘A Love so Contagious’ from Jeff Finlin, taken from his just released new book of poetry entitled ‘The Seduction Of Radha’…a kind of modern-day American Rumi-ism.
SERA has an impressive ability to weave together strands from different genres to create songs which allow her individuality to shine through. Little Girl looks set to reach a wide audience and bring Sera the commercial success she so richly deserves.
Cardiff singer-songwriter and folk musician Gareth Bonello (The Gentle Good) returns this October with his fourth album Ruins/Adfeilion. To mark the release, we have a series of exclusive live videos. Watch the first one today – The Fisherman
The first names for Celtic Connections 2017 are announced with tickets going on sale for Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, The Felice Brothers, Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and Joanne Shaw Taylor.
