As an exclusive premiere, Maz O’Connor shares her video for Extraordinary, her new single. Amazingly, it was all made on a £0 budget in and around Trafalgar Square.
The latest names have been announced for Cambridge Folk Festival 2017, including the legendary Shirley Collins, Indigo Girls, Sharon Shannon, The Furrow Collective, Beth Nielsen Chapman and more
Singer-songwriter Ry Cooder will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards which take place on 5 April at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
With her new album Sweet Kind Of Blue due this Spring (May 19th), listen to Emily Barker’s second single ‘Sunrise’ off her new record. It has that Memphis sound stamped through it like a stick of rock.
Watch Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar’s new live video for The Silent Majority. The BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning duo will reunite again next month as they head out on tour. You don’t want to miss this.
Sproatly Smith celebrate spring again with the return of Weirdshire Weekend featuring guests from the psychedelic folk scene including Sharron Kraus, Trappist Afterland, Alula Down, Mark McDowell, Bird Radio and many more. Check our special preview.
Canada’s The East Pointers return to the UK for another intense run of energy-fueled dates. The band will be showcasing music from their much anticipated second album, due for release in the Autumn 2017.
Watch Captain Noel, the new video from Baby Copperhead, the song features on his new album ‘The Serpent and the Sparrow,’ out on 7 April via Tin Angel Records. On tour with Devon Sproule in March and April.
The Mekons current and original line-ups will play together for the first time this summer at Mekonville, a three-day family-friendly arts festival which marks their 40th Anniversary. The festival runs July 28th-30th in Pettaugh, rural Suffolk.
Our Song of the Day is Stop Talking About It, from the long-awaited new studio album Cracks in the Room by fiddle/harp duo Twelfth Day (Catriona Price and Esther Swift).
Cormac Begley announces a solo concertina album using the full range of concertinas from bass, baritone, treble to piccolo. The album is a delight, highlighting some of the instrument’s possibilities spanning across seven octaves.
Eden Festival has been awarded £12,500 towards the creation of ‘The Great Mountain Stage’, which will showcase established and up and coming Scottish artists performing an array of trad, folk, Celtic music.
