The fourth London Folk & Roots Festival gets underway later this month offering 18 Days of the very best in Folk, Roots, World, Blues & Country Music (Saturday 28th October – Saturday 18th November 2017).
Ahead of a run of acoustic live dates in November Lisbee Stainton announces new album, ‘Lisbee LIVE’ from which you can listen to Undertow, a song co-written with a long-time champion of Lisbee’s music, Tom Robinson.
Listen to the lead single ‘Secret’ from dream-folk quartet Circumnavigate, an intimate folk song with lead singer Sigrid Zeiner-Gundersen’s ethereal vocal carrying the song effortlessly alongside the band’s atmospheric musicianship.
Folk Show Episode 13 features some great vintage folk from the Transatlantic label with Pentangle, Sweeney’s Men, Alan Hull and more. Plus classics from Nick Drake and Bob Dylan and new releases from Cara Dillon, Karine Polwart and more.
Watch Valparaiso’s noir video of the song “Fireplace” feat. Rosemary Standley of Moriarty, taken from the critically acclaimed long-player Broken Homeland. It’s directed by photographer Richard Dumas and Amaury Voslion.
Listen to Sergeant William Bailey, from Lankum’s forthcoming album ‘Between the Earth & Sky’. This one is particularly special in that the site of William Bailey’s recruiting attempts is Dunphy’s corner, just down the road from where the members of Lankum live on Dublin’s northside.
Cara Dillon, one of the most celebrated singers in Irish Folk music and BBC Folk Award winner, announces her brand new album Wanderer. For this, her seventh album, she offers a collection of songs featuring intimate performances that capture some of her most moving vocal performances to date.
Described as one of the most versatile singer-composers of the current era, Moira Smiley has been around the world with the likes of tUnE-yArDs and Solas. Lately, though, it’s her work with refugees that’s informing her musical endeavours. Watch her new video here.
We talk to Kathryn Tickell about Magnetic North East, borne out of a love for the region: its music, arts, culture, heritage, places and people. They are also launching a new poetry anthology – ‘Land of Three Rivers’ is a celebration of North-East England in poetry.
Pilgrims’ Way are back this month (but not as you know them) with Stand and Deliver – a concept album which draws on the rich seam of English traditional highwayman songs (and the not so traditional). Watch their new video: Shoot them All! (Box On Her Head).
The fiery Highland five-piece powerhouse Elephant Sessions announce a November UK Tour from Inverness to Bath, from Bury to Skye, and including an appearance at London’s Folk and Roots Festival.
Ahead of their highly anticipated self-titled debut album due out Friday 13th October, brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn, who form Ye Vagabonds, have released the second single “Half Blind” with an accompanying video made by filmmaker Myles O’Reilly.
