Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Rooted’, Martin Simpson takes the bull by the horns and tackles self-serving neoliberalism on his new single Neo.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ralegh Long with ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’. Watch the accompanying video which features super 8 film that belonged to his grandfather.
Matthew Bannister’s Folk on Foot returns for Season 3 this month. The guests include more of the UK’s most acclaimed folk artists – The Unthanks, Martin Simpson, John Smith, Lisa Knapp and Duncan Chisholm and it kicks off with a special ‘Spell Songs’ episode.
Little Toller and Common Ground launch crowdfunder for ‘Living with Trees’ – Several years in the making, it is a cornucopia of ideas and inspiration — a book that will hopefully inspire a generation of tree lovers and forest dreamers into action.
Traditional folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Rutter announces a follow-up to his 2017 solo debut with Gold of Scar & Shale. Watch the video for his first single ‘I Was Once a Young Ploughboy’.
Watch the new lyric video for Black Rooster, the new single from Wales-based Wyoming-born songsmith Jeb Loy Nichols, taken from his forthcoming new album June Is Short, July Is Long (out 5th July). He tells us the song started life on the Welsh back roads where he lives.
Festival favourites, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, infamous for their frenetic fiddle tunes and thumping backline, celebrate their tenth birthday as a band in 2019 with a lengthy autumn-winter ‘Ten Yaar Anniversary’ tour.
With Sidmouth Folk Festival just around the corner and The Ham venue grabbing much of the attention, it’s The Bulverton which is Sidmouth’s party central! From Late Night Extra ceilidhs and some of the most thrilling concert performances on the UK festival calendar.
Our Song of the Day comes from Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Adir L.C. with Best Version (of My Short Life), the opening track from his second full-length album “Basket Star”. Watch the accompanying video here…the lyrics remain with you long after the final note fades out.
Watch the accompanying video for “Happier Now,” the new single from Devin Tuel who resides in rural Pennsylvania, and is better known to the larger world as Native Harrow. Utterly timeless and refreshingly original.
Sea Songs: Anatomy of a Drowning Man is the forthcoming new album from Belfast-based M.CAMBRIDGE (Arborist). Featuring sea songs based on old shanties, Ulster weaver-poet poems, traditional ballads and original compositions, it’s one of the most beautiful and remarkable albums I’ve heard this year.
Inspired by a walk around Danebury Hill Fort in Hampshire, Danebury Rumination finds singer-songwriter Owen Tromans focusing on the cyclical nature of life and death, and presents a stoic response to the knowledge that our time on Earth is limited.
