Day two of WOMAD 2016 and the sun is out with more musical magic to brighten our day still further from the likes of Asiq Nargile, Amaraterra, The Grit Orchestra and Blick Bassy.
Day one of WOMAD is as promising a start to a festival as we could hope for with a secret gig from This is the Kit and a powerhouse performance from Asian Dub Foundation.
Our latest Lost in Transmission mix features new releases from Ryley Walker and Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton as well as some classics and gems including: Bert Jansch, Tim Hardin, Nancy Wallace, Rachel Newton and more.
For the latest Before the Gold Rush session we have two great songs from Amy Gillespie, a London based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will release their debut album for Rough Trade, ‘Overnight,’ on October 14th. Listen to the album’s lilting first single, “The Waning Crescent”.
To mark their first decade as a duo, Gilmore & Roberts announce a 10th Anniversary Tour and their first live album. Recorded this year on their spring tour it features their most requested songs from their albums to date.
London-based alt-folk troupe Patch & The Giant get into festival mode and head to London’s Ecclestone Square to record a cover of Bob Dylan’s Oh, Sister – Our Song of the Day. Don’t miss their tour dates which include Cambridge Folk Festival.
Watch the new video from Ryley Walker for The Roundabout, it was filmed and edited by Joe Martinez Jr. and is taken from his forthcoming album ‘Golden Sings That Have Been Sung’.
The wonderfully talented Rachel Newton provides our Song of the Day via her new video for Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad – supported by a hugely talented band as well. It’s so good we gave you a double helping!
Sidmouth FolkWeek kicks off this week. Check out some of the highlights, listen to our Spotify playlist and have a read through past festival memories from the likes of Kathryn Tickell, Andy Cutting and more.
Fegan’s passion and knowledge of Irish traditional music played by members of the Irish Travelling community is remarkable. This is a captivating documentary, through interviews and supported archive footage he has brought to life the stuff of legend.
Following on from the razor sharp polemics of ‘The City Nowadays’, L.A. Salami releases his new Double-A side single, ‘I Wear This Because Life Is War’ / ‘Day To Day’. Listen now.
