Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith partner with Kings Place for one-day festival exploring the role folk music can play in highlighting environmental issues. featuring Karine Polwart, Peggy Seeger, George Monbiot, Hazel Askew and Edgelarks.
Watch Anglo-Americana London duo Copper Viper performing live their unreleased song ‘Opal & The Bear’. They will be returning to London’s Green Note together with English fingerstyle guitarist Karl Culley on Friday 28th February. Not to be missed!
Eliza Carthy and the Restitute Band share video for their new single Down & Out. Unlike the original this sounds like it was dug up from the underbelly of society with Tom Waits’s personal seal of approval. Outstanding!
Listen to ‘May Morning Dew’, the debut single from Hannah Donelon & Grace Lemon, a traditional vocal duo whose distinct voices blend together through haunting harmonies and ornamentation.
Our Song of the Day comes from Odette Michell with ‘Light Up London Town’, a gentle-handed yet poignant overview of the ill-fated gunpowder plot of 1605. Watch the accompanying video.
Following our recent premiere of Nyack, Cambridge-based New Yorker & Alt-folk Singer Songwriter, Annie Dressner returns again with new single and lyric video “Out in the Cold”.
To mark the 50th Anniversary of The Great Fife Road Show there will be a celebratory show featuring Maureen (Chalmers) Blyth, Davie Craig, Barbara Dickson, Noel Farroe, Cilla Fisher, Jim Herd, Jimmy Hutchison, Brian Miller, Rab Noakes, Davey Stewart and Artie Trezise.
For those seeking an antidote to festive schmaltz, you need look no further than London-based alt-folk trio Thickets. Listen to their new single A Winter’s Warning, a wintery murder ballad to chill even the most hardened folkie.
With a highly anticipated forthcoming solo album Nathaniel Rateliff returns to his early acoustic days with the And It’s Still Alright tour which will feature many facets of Rateliff’s musicianship—ranging from stripped-back moments to the accompaniment of a full band.
After embarking on a solo career, releasing his debut solo album The Unfinished Violin on Island Records and touring it to sell-out crowds in 2019, Sam Sweeney is releasing his highly anticipated second solo album, Unearth Repeat, on Hudson Records in March 2020.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan share new single “The Shearing’s Not For You”, a traditional song James first heard sang by Aberdeenshire Traveller Jeannie Robertson. It features on their new album “Navarasa : Nine Emotions ” out on January 24th.
Watch Toby Hay performing “The Summer the Sky Cried For Rain” live at the state51 Factory, it’s taken from his latest album, ‘New Music For The 12 String Guitar’.
