On the latest Folk on Foot podcast, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter from Stick in the Wheel take Matthew from a Victorian weaver’s house in Spitalfields to Walthamstow Market and the Rose and Crown pub and finally onto Epping Forest…performing songs along the way.
Perfectly timed for Valentines Day, we have the pleasure in sharing with you the title track of the new album from Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly which will be released on March, 15th via Pure Records.
Watch the video for the new single from Marry Waterson & Emily Barker, taken from their new album together ‘A Window To Other Ways’ – an exciting, explorative journey, and a charmed collaboration.
Tompkins Square are to release an album of unheard recordings from a secret Rochester guitarist called Kinloch Nelson who was brought to the label’s attention by Duck Baker.
A Bridge of Starlings is the stunning new single from Ben Osborn: a British songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist based between Berlin, Germany and Bristol, UK.
Our Song of the Day comes from TAU, the latest project of Berlin-based Dubliner Shaun Mulrooney. The accompanying video for Craw is both mystical and stunning in its simplicity. Genius.
‘Travelling Bright’ is the new album from David Ian Roberts, released via Welsh label Cambrian Records on the 15th of March. Listen to lead track ‘Sending Out Fires’.
Watch ‘No Soap Radio’, taken from Curtis Eller and The American Circus’s forthcoming album ‘A Poison Melody’, filmed in a beautifully dilapidated barn in rural North Carolina.
Watch Lau live in session at Silk Mill Studios performing Return to Portland from their new album Midnight and Closedown. Out this Friday, February 8th via Reveal Records.
In celebration of Black History Month, Smithsonian Folkways have released “Black Myself,” the latest single from Songs of Our Native Daughters. Written and performed by Amythyst Kiah, joined by Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell.
We catch up with Hannah Rarity who recently performed at Celtic Connections with her band. We talk about her debut release ‘Neath the Gloaming Star’, her influences, the future and more.