One for fans of traditional fiddle music, watch the incredibly talented Scottish fiddle player Ryan Young performing with Chris Amer on guitar. Make sure you catch Ryan on one of his many tour dates this year.
An extra special treat at the end of the week as North Carolina folk duo House and Land pay a visit to the home of Shirley Collins and perform Ca the Yowes for her. Watch the video here.
Calexico and Iron & Wine are to release a collaborative album ‘Years To Burn’ this coming Friday, watch the Making Of mini-documentary – They will also be touring together including London’s Royal Festival Hall and a headline slot at Cambridge Folk Festival.
Last month saw the release of Londoner Alex Seel‘s latest LP Spell on a Tin Drum. Our Song of the Day is the closing track of the album titled Quietus on which you can hear the influence of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.
James P Honey (Buriers) is now the subject of a fascinating new short documentary directed by Pascal Boudet. In the space of just over 8 minutes we get a fascinating look inside Honey’s world and what feeds his music, poetry and prose.
This month Rowan Rheingans embarks on an ambitious and deeply personal one-woman show “Dispatches on the Red Dress”, an intimate and adventurous exploration of memory, identity, joy, sorrow, trauma-recovery, war and waltzes.
Norwegian musician and composer Terje Isungset’s latest single and music video was recorded in 10 degrees below Celsius in Spitsbergen. A collaboration with Greenpeace to focus on saving the unique life in our oceans.
Efterklang announces the release of their fifth album ‘Altid Sammen’ and share video for their first single ‘Vi er uendelig’ (“We are infinite”) which features the Danish model and photographer Helena Christensen.
In July, you can join the Commoners Choir and friends who will be walking and singing to remember and celebrate people’s solidarity, resistance and persistence, from 1819 to today.
Watch the new video for ‘Oysters’ from Edgelarks; also our Song of the Day. The song details how nature can create beauty despite adversity, and how humans could learn from that. It is taken from their new album ‘Feathers’ which is out now.
Green Ribbons is a project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song. The current line-up features Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong, Alasdair Roberts and Benjamin “Jinnwoo” Webb. Watch their accompanying video for Garden Song from their forthcoming debut album.
