Our Song of the Day is the new single from Gregory Ackerman. ‘We’ve Got a Runner’ is a catchy number that’s impossible to resist – it could be a summer anthem – watch the accompanying video which premieres on Folk Radio today.
Melbourne contemporary folk outfit The Maes share video for Treat You Better, the opening track of their new self-titled album. It features a compilation of live footage from their tour including Orkney Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, WOMADelaide and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes with Molly Donnery – a video capturing their first notes together as a trio – a musical meeting. The results are beautiful – an album will follow.
Luke Daniels returns with a fourth solo album that promises to be his most interesting to date which contains re-worked slices of English poetry from the past seven hundred years. Lead single “Old Friends and Exhausted Enemies” is out today.
Revolving around composer/producer Jolanda Moletta and guitar player Demian Endian, She Owl release a new recording of Mimla along with an accompanying video that finds them conjuring new sounds and improvising in their most cinematic form to date.
Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Rooted’, Martin Simpson takes the bull by the horns and tackles self-serving neoliberalism on his new single Neo.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ralegh Long with ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’. Watch the accompanying video which features super 8 film that belonged to his grandfather.
Matthew Bannister’s Folk on Foot returns for Season 3 this month. The guests include more of the UK’s most acclaimed folk artists – The Unthanks, Martin Simpson, John Smith, Lisa Knapp and Duncan Chisholm and it kicks off with a special ‘Spell Songs’ episode.
Little Toller and Common Ground launch crowdfunder for ‘Living with Trees’ – Several years in the making, it is a cornucopia of ideas and inspiration — a book that will hopefully inspire a generation of tree lovers and forest dreamers into action.
Traditional folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Rutter announces a follow-up to his 2017 solo debut with Gold of Scar & Shale. Watch the video for his first single ‘I Was Once a Young Ploughboy’.
Watch the new lyric video for Black Rooster, the new single from Wales-based Wyoming-born songsmith Jeb Loy Nichols, taken from his forthcoming new album June Is Short, July Is Long (out 5th July). He tells us the song started life on the Welsh back roads where he lives.
Festival favourites, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, infamous for their frenetic fiddle tunes and thumping backline, celebrate their tenth birthday as a band in 2019 with a lengthy autumn-winter ‘Ten Yaar Anniversary’ tour.
