Sam Lee is hosting a series of after-dark events in woods this Spring, offering a campfire feast with songs and stories about one of Britain’s rarest birds – the nightingale – featuring Nessi Gomes, Aidan O’Rourke, Laura Moody, Alice Zawadzki and more. It promises to be a unique experience.
Kathryn Williams has announced that she will release a ‘soundtrack album’ to a brand new novel by best-selling author Laura Barnett – Greatest Hits. Listen to the premiere of Common Ground.
Watch ‘Well Enough Alone’ from Australia’s The Mae Trio. The single is taken from their much-awaited sophomore album ‘Take Care Take Cover’. They will be bringing their unique contemporary twist on folk music to Europe this summer.
Watch filmmaker Steve Sweet’s video of a January 2017 exclusive session (and sonically markedly starker and different) recording of Silver And Lead, the first track from John Murry’s A Short History of Decay.
After years of fan requests, Shakey Graves will officially release two EPs from his collection of rarities and early home recordings as a package set titled ‘Shakey Graves And The Horse He Rode In On (Nobodys Fool & The Donor Blues EP)’ on June 30.
Our Song of the Day is Moved On by Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith. The duo wrote the song about the residents of Newham in East London, and in particular, the campaigners in Focus E15 who are fighting a long battle to secure social housing in the area.
This May sees John Moreland making his 4AD debut with ‘Big Bad Luv’ his fourth album which will be released worldwide on May 5th. Watch his latest video for ‘It Don’t Suit Me…’ and don’t miss his tour dates beginning with Glasgow on 6th May.
Welsh band CALAN have released a video for Apparition, an original song from their new album Solomon based on some entries in the diary of Edmund Jones speaking about the fairy realm in south Wales. They are on tour now.
Cameron J Niven has released a video for his single Indigo Hue which features images from ‘Woman in the Dunes’, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Watch it here.
Watch the video premiere of ‘Wrong Side Of The Road’, the new single from the 21-year-old songwriter Tally Spear, a song which sees her honing her musical skills and blossoming as a vivid storyteller.
Welsh guitarist Toby Hay is currently on tour following the release of this debut album ‘The Gathering’. So what does he listen to while on the road? Check his ‘On the Road’ playlist featuring the likes of Karen Dalton, The Gloaming and more.
Listen to Bang Bang, the new single from two-time Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee, Sarah Jane Scouten taken from her new full-length album When The Bloom Falls From The Rose, due for release on June 16th via Light Organ Records.
