Taken from a documentary highlighting the special things that are happening in Irish folk and traditional music right now, watch Saileog and Muireann Ní Cheannabháin performing a beautiful Sean Nós song on Maghermore Beach in Co. Wicklow.
Although well known as a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, John Cohen is also an exceptional photographer. Next month sees the publication of a new work – Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass.
Our Song of the Day is “Rake & Rambling Boy” taken from a 2015 single released by Mike & Cara Gangloff (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, The Great American Drone Orchestra) on The Great Pop Supplement label.
The Orphan Brigade head to the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland for inspiration for their new and aptly titled album “To the Edge of the World.” Watch the video for their first single ‘The Banshee’, also our Song of the Day.
Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.
I take a look at this year’s Sidmouth Folk Festival lineup and tried to come up with a list of recommended concerts and performances – no easy task considering the immense line-up. It’s quite unlike any other festival out there.
We talk to producer, engineer and Hudson Records label owner Andy Bell about curating Folk on the Tyne, growing and supporting the music scene from the bottom up as well as plans for the future… he has a few.
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.
