Our Song of the Day is a new single from James Yorkston. ‘Shallow’ is taken from his new album The Route to the Harmonium – due for release on Feb 22nd 2019 via Domino. Watch the accompanying video by Sam Wisternoff.
Tonight, 83-year old Shirley Collins will travel from her home in Lewes to BBC Broadcasting House for a rare, live interview with Cerys Matthews on her Radio 2 Blues Show ahead of her performance at London’s Roundhouse on 31 January.
Edinburgh Tradfest returns in 2019 kicking off at the Queen’s Hall on Friday 26 April with live music from anarchic Irish folk band Lankum. Plus: Talisk, Inge Thomson, Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona Hunter, Kaela Rowan, May Erlewine, The Fretless and lots more.
In 2019, The Sidmouth Folk Festival marks its significant 65th birthday with a re-name and a new logo that demonstrates a commitment to innovation, driving the event forward in every way while continuing to proudly champion its musical roots and long-established East Devon home.
Watch the new video for ‘Dover’ from Manchester-born indie-folk artist Joshua Howlett who is now based in a chalet near Montreux, Switzerland, and signed to Big Fam Records. It is taken from his debut EP ‘Autumnal’.
Whilst Rosie Hood is no stranger to these pages, this is the first video to be released featuring her trio with Nicola Beazley (fiddle) and Lucy Huzzard (melodeon). They possess a fresh creative spirit that’s effortlessly conveyed in their music.
Watch Seneca Creek, the new single from West Virginia-based songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin, a deeply introspective character sketch about the oft-romanticized agrarian lifestyle of Appalachia.
New Zealand artist Albert Mikolaj was transformed by a life-changing detour through South America, A.U.R.A, his solo project, is the dream canvas. Watch his beautiful video for ‘Who Decides’, also our Song of the Day…a nuanced dance of heart and mind.
Glen Hansard announces ‘This Wild Willing’, his fourth full-length album in which he marries the sonic inventiveness of the best of his work in The Frames with the discipline he’s found as a songwriter and lyricist in his solo career. Listen to lead track ‘I’ll Be You, Be Me’.
The Mammals have been on tour in the UK getting warmed up for their big show at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival tomorrow, Friday 18th January. Watch their new video for Ashokan Farewell, a tune penned by Jay Ungar, Ruthy’s father.
After six years, Woolf II – A Terrascope Celebration returns to Cleeve House in Wiltshire featuring The Bevis Frond, The Left Outsides, Sharron Kraus, Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex, Trappist Afterland, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay and more.
World-renowned Irish American supergroup The Gloaming return with their highly anticipated third studio album The Gloaming 3 on 22nd February 2019 on Real World Records. Listen to two new tracks Sheehan’s Jigs and Áthas (Joy).
