We rewind the clock to 2009 to one of my all-time favourite albums – James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Folk Songs. Watch them in session including a short documentary.
Rachael Dadd has just announced that she is to release a new album titled ‘Flux’ on 8 November via Memphis Industries the announcement for which was led by her new video for “Cut My Roots”, one of the most powerful statements she’s made to date.
While at Sidmouth Folk Festival, Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke were led to one of Sidmouth’s iconic seafront shelters, where they performed “What Can May Come” from their debut album “Count the Wicked.”
Our Tune of the Day comes from the incredible Cormac Begley & Liam O’Connor performing Craig’s pipes and the Foxhunter reel live at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Together they reinforce the notion that we are in a golden age of Irish traditional music.
Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook album has reached number 34 in the UK Album Charts, her first-ever Top 40 Album. It also reached an incredible No 2 in the Scottish Album Charts. Don’t miss her Songbook tour.
Taken from a documentary highlighting the special things that are happening in Irish folk and traditional music right now, watch Saileog and Muireann Ní Cheannabháin performing a beautiful Sean Nós song on Maghermore Beach in Co. Wicklow.
Although well known as a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, John Cohen is also an exceptional photographer. Next month sees the publication of a new work – Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass.
Our Song of the Day is “Rake & Rambling Boy” taken from a 2015 single released by Mike & Cara Gangloff (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, The Great American Drone Orchestra) on The Great Pop Supplement label.
The Orphan Brigade head to the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland for inspiration for their new and aptly titled album “To the Edge of the World.” Watch the video for their first single ‘The Banshee’, also our Song of the Day.
Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.
I take a look at this year’s Sidmouth Folk Festival lineup and tried to come up with a list of recommended concerts and performances – no easy task considering the immense line-up. It’s quite unlike any other festival out there.
We talk to producer, engineer and Hudson Records label owner Andy Bell about curating Folk on the Tyne, growing and supporting the music scene from the bottom up as well as plans for the future… he has a few.
