The good folk at the English Folk Dance and Song Society are putting on a creative family folk arts festival to celebrate spring traditions at Cecil Sharp House in Camden on Saturday 12 May.
Lisa Knapp’s new EP ‘Hunt the Hare – A Branch of May’ excels with ingenuity and magic and sets Lisa Knapp at the forefront and heart of the English Folk Renaissance, incredible.
Tucker Zimmerman makes a rare London appearance this Friday and will be also be performing at Bristol Folk Festival this Sunday with Wizz Jones, Ben Mandelson, Ian A. Anderson, Nancy Wallace and Jason Steel.
Newcastle University has produced some of the leading artists in the UK folk scene. Now, their Folk and Traditional Music degree is celebrating its 10th birthday with a concert at The Sage Gateshead.
The first step in the journey of making one of the most important archives in modern music history available to the public begins this week – the first details of John Peel’s record collection will be published online for the first time ever.
Listen to the latest Propermusic Podcast which features a session and interview with Irish singer-songwriter Paul Brady who has just released his new double CD Anthology ‘Dancer In The Fire’.
KAN are one of those bands that are at the forefront of moulding and re-defining tradtional music, if this is the standard then the tradtional music scene has rewarding times ahead!
The new Simple Folk Radio show will be broadcast today at 5:00pm. Presented by Simple Folk Radio’s monthly resident host Daniel Green who will be joined by Rory Dickenson.
Dave Sudbury is one of a kind! He wrote ‘The King of Rome’ a song that took flight around the world thanks to June Tabor. His daughter contacted me recently and we did an interview. I’ve never felt so moved by a singer and his story.
