Jesca Hoop’s new album ‘The Complete Kismet Acoustic’ is about rediscovery in many ways…her best album yet…as Tom Waits once said “her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”
Watch a collection of sessions that were recently recorded by the BBC at Celtic Connections, some of our favourites that we featured over 2012: Karine Polwart, Trembling Bells, Rachel Hair Trio and Jo Mango!
The latest offering from Edinburgh based roots collective Southern Tenant Folk Union ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun‘ is fizzing with emotional charge…challenging, inventive and original, it doesn’t get much better!
Lily Mae is a 16 year old contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Bucks County, PA. She recently released her stunning debut EP ‘Early Days’. We caught up with Lily and her sister Chloe, also her lyricist!
Hiss Golden Messenger have announced the release of their fifth album ‘Haw’, get your first taster here….pricklier and more unknowable than the places explored on ‘Poor Moon’ (2011)
The Black Twig Pickers are back with a new album Rough Carpenters. All those small musical nuances go to make up the unique whole…As Gangloff explains, “It’s not the melody, it’s the moss.”
Folk Radio UK teams up with fRoots – folk, roots & world magazine, to carry their monthly fRoots Radio show presented by fRoots editor, musician and veteran ex-BBC World Service broadcaster Ian Anderson.
In Episode 2: Day 2. ‘High up on the Ancient Ridgeway’ of ‘An English Love Story’ M.N. Hopwood continues on his journey from Ogbourne St George to high up on Uffington Hill.
Whilst I appreciate that mainstream radio may have tired out some of you from hearing Mumford and Sons I still found myself smiling when I saw this session. Reminded me of Open House Festival in Belfast.
This is simply brilliant! A taster of Aidan O’Rourke’s new album ‘Hotline’. Listen to ‘TAT-1’, Martyn Bennett would have loved a piece of this action…this is Scottish inventors at their musically best! Stunning!
The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen’s vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to Roscoe Holcomb an underappreciated legend of American music.
The latest Simple Folk Radio show features an incredible band called OHIOAN. Over the years, the band has involved members of Castanets/Raymond Byron & the White Freighter, Old Time Relijun/Malaikat dan Singa, Jackie-O Motherfucker
