Birmingham’s traditional Irish music festival returns with their best lineup promising to be bigger, better and brighter than 2014. Including Damien O’Kane, Mary Bergin, Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly, Jim Murray & John Joe Kelly, Máirtín O’Connor Trio & more!
Gate to Southwell get warmed up for their 2016 10th Anniversary and announce first artists including Show of Hands, Eddi Reader, Kila, False Lights, Moulettes, Jackie Oates Trio, The Henry Girls and more.
Our Song of the Day is from Show of Hands with Breme Fell At Hastings, a song about a farmer who became a hero who fell at the Battle of Hastings. Taken from their new album The Long Way Home.
To mark their ten-year milestone The Shee announce new collaborative project ‘Continuum’ featuring a host of well known folk composers. We will be hearing from each band member over the next six weeks in a special Folk Radio UK feature.
Madrid-based acoustic four piece ‘Track Dogs’ are back with a new surprise single dedicated to the AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott…all in wonderful four-part harmony around a single microphone.
To mark the release today of Bob Dylan’s ‘The Best Of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12’ a new video has been unveiled for Visions of Johanna. Watch it here.
Our latest mix features some of the best new folk music out there today and the majority of the tracks are very new releases. Alongside some well know artists are also some relative newcomers. Enjoy and share!
Watch the video premiere for Fay Hield’s ‘Green Gravel’ which recreates a singing game played by children. The track features on the lead single for her new album Old Adam due out in February 2016.
Topette!! a new Anglo-French band featuring Andy Cutting, Barnaby Stradling, James Delarre, Julien Cartonnet and Tania Buisse provide us with our Tune of the Day. They will blow your socks off! Make sure you get to see them live. The party’s about to start!
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner head out on tour this week and have announced the release of a new live DVD. If you’ve yet to capture the magic of this trio then now’s your chance!
We have a brilliant video premiere (and Song of the Day) from Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock with ‘The Honey And The Seaweed’, from their forthcoming new album ‘Two Wolves’.
We have a very special video premiere for Emily Portman’s ‘Seed Stitch’, her new single out today. To coincide, she’ll also play a BBC live session for Mark Radcliffe’s Folk Show tonight before kicking off her tour later this week. Don’t miss out!
