David Weir

Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest handles the vicissitudes of love and life with inimitable tact and charm as only Callahan can, resulting in a career-high that listeners are sure to return to for sanctum and solace for many years to come.

David Weir catches Rachel & Becky Unthanks and Niopha Keegan at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on their ‘As We Are’ tour, an unadorned acapella trio performance. An evening which demonstrates not only their breadth of repertoire but the depth of their poetic expression and interests.

Off the back of their recent release ‘Lines’ – a trilogy of song cycles inspired by poetry, focusing on three female perspectives through time – we caught up with Rachel Unthank (of The Unthanks) to discuss her part in bringing this remarkable collection to our attention.

Featuring some of the best British & Irish Folk artists, Vision & Revision serves as a reminder of the enriching ways folk song lends itself to reinvention, and the idealists, innovators and romantics that have passed through their ranks….yet another testament to Topic’s enduring legacy.

Following the release of ‘Lines’ their trilogy of song cycles inspired by poetry and their recently announced Emily Brontë Song Cycle Tour, we caught up with The Unthanks pianist and composer Adrian McNally to discuss how this stunning collection came to be.

We join Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts, otherwise known as The Furrow Collective, at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room for an evening of hushed appreciation and a homecoming of sorts, in Portman’s case.

The Unseen In Between is befitting of its title; a mysterious and mesmeric edgeland offering glimpses into the underbelly of a half-remembered neighbourhood, and the trials and habits of its outcasts.

Gripping from start to finish, here is Another Side Of Todd Snider: piercing, precise, bare but still as eccentric as ever. Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 earns its place right up there with the very best of Snider’s sprawling back catalogue.

The Social Power of Music is an exhaustive and eclectic 83-song anthology centred on the redemptive and revolutionary power of music. An astonishingly inspirational compilation that celebrates and aims, in its own way, ‘to surround hate and force it to surrender.’

David catches Spell Songs in London which brings together eight remarkable musicians, whose music engages deeply with landscape and nature, to respond to the creatures, art and language of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.

Fifty years on, Shirley Collins returns to London’s Roundhouse… It is hard to imagine anyone who deserves to be on that stage more than Shirley Collins, as the ovations and cheering voices tonight will attest.

As two fiddle players work their way through a traditional air in the downstairs bar of Cecil Sharp House, former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden (solo) prepares to take the stage in the main hall for an epic set of post-apocalyptic prog-folk.