Watch Jazz Jamaica All Stars performing Bob Marley’s Catch a Fire. The band blend a great fusion of mento, ska, reggae and jazz styles to create a very unique and catchy style.
This weeks Nest Collective Hour will provide our listeners with a very special treat. They will be featuring the 2013 hot tipped British-Norwegian composer Sasha Siem in session with her string and percussion quartet.
Folk Radio UK has an exclusive free download from The Handsome Family’s new album: Wilderness, their first since 2009’s Honey Moon. Get the track Woodpecker and Dod’t miss their May Tour!
Alessi’s Ark is back with her third album ‘The Still Life’ which will be released on Bella Union Monday 15th April 2013. Listen to the first single ‘The Rain’.
Grizzly Bear have announced their new single ‘Speak in Rounds’ and director Kris Moyes talks about their forthcoming video for “gun-shy” which explores where individual creativity comes from.
Madeleine Peyroux announces new album ‘The Blue Room’ and reveals the video for her new single, a cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘Changing All Those Changes’. Watch it now.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are due to release their new album ‘Specter At The Feast’ in March…get your first taster as they release their first ‘free’ single “Let The Day Begin“.
Nick Hemming’s The Leisure Society are back with a new album ‘Alone Aboard the Ark’, watch the album trailer, get the tour dates and a free track: The Sober Scent Of Paper
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!
