John McCusker shares some of his favourites from this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival with a special spotify playlist and talks about each track. Featuring Christy Moore, Sam Lee, Baaba Maal, Glen Hansard, Heidi Talbot, Mary Chapin Carpenter and more.
Listen to ‘Emboniga’ by Mendrugo, a trio led by the infamous Hermanos Herrero – Víctor & José Luis – along with Josephine Foster. A song about the rural tradition of muck splattering….a goat deterrent used in olive groves.
Heidi Talbot’s fifth solo LP plays to the tune of quiet skips and giant leaps. It crosses the ages, jumps into the unknown, traverses oceans and musical styles – from folk, through Americana, to classic pop, and back again.
Our Song of the Day is Cold Old Fire by Dublin-based band Lynched. Watch the powerfully moving Director’s Cut video (by Luke McManus) which opens to the traditional funeral lament Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire.
It’s back and there’s still time to enter! The Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (25-28 August) is celebrating the UK folk scene with its very own talent contest, Purbeck Rising.
Show of Hands have today released single and video ‘The Gamekeeper’ to mark the centenary of the first day of WW1’s Battle of the Somme. They are also performing in a special concert at Exeter Cathedral tonight.
Fledg’ling Records announce new Anne Briggs EP. Rare, simple, unadorned and intimate performances, aching with poignancy, make their first appearance on record, fifty years after recording and capture Anne Briggs singing at just the right time.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have unveiled their new video for Wake Up The Sun which was shot on Location in Chimishli and Chisinau – Moldova With the Chimishli Village Theatre group.
A new Lost in Transmission mix featuring new music from Rozi Plain, King Creosote & Michael Johnston, Kathleen Mary Lee, as well as some favourites that keep the tempo climbing.
The Mekons, those sonic adventurers that formed in Leeds way back in 1977, have offered up a musical response to Brexit with Fear & Beer – also a sneak peak at MEKONS EXISTENTIALISM, a new album/book/video to be released September 2016.
Thrill Jockey, following the release of her LP, have revealed a documentary on the mysterious songwriter Jackie Lynn who will be making appearances around the world this Summer.
Listen to ‘Black Waves’, a track premiere from BD Harrington’s forthcoming third album ‘The Diver’s Curse’, an album whose bleakness is rescued from overwhelming darkness via its diversity and insightful story-telling…
