Sidmouth Folk Festival has announced the first names for 2020 including Show of Hands, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Eddi Reader, Home Service (with John Tams), Eliza Carthy including pre-festival shows featuring Steeleye Span and The Fisherman’s Friends.
On her latest single, Mary Chapin Carpenter reflects on the passing of time with “Our Man Walter Cronkite”, named after the CBS Evening News anchorman who was called “the most trusted man in America”.
The winners of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards emerged last night at Aberdeen Music Hall in a live-broadcast ceremony. Winners included Kinnaris Quintet, Breabach, Mary Ann Kennedy, Blazin’ Fiddles and more.
Ben Walker is to join forces with Kirsty Merryn for a new project titled Life and the Land, a celebration of England’s harvest tradition, reimagining songs born out of our agricultural past.
Watch the new video from London-based Folk musician Ned Roberts for his new single Wrong Side Of You (out today), a song about travelling to escape – yet your mind is still inexorably drawn back home.
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival reveal first names including Drever McCusker Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Magpie Arc, The Demon Barbers XL, The Breath, Jackie Oates & John Spiers, Monster Ceilidh Band, Salt House, Topette!! and more
Rachel Newton releases digital EP ‘Everything I Know Without Knowing’ inspired by the poetry of Uxue Alberdi and Ciara MacLaverty. It was recorded by Mattie Foulds while she was working on ‘Throwing Voices’ during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
FolkEast unveils the first names for 2020 including Afro Celt Sound System who will headline Saturday night, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Drever, McCusker & Woomble, The Shee, Gigspanner Big Band, Trials of Cato and more.
Listen to Mountain Man’s new single ‘You and I’, a Wilco cover which they chose to celebrate them being band members, collaborators, friends and business partners for over 10 years now.
Now in its fifth year, the festive roots music supergroup A Winter Union hit the road for their annual winter tour, armed with their brand new live album, A Winter Union – Live In Concert.
Watch Dublin-based duo Varo’s video for Sovay, a tune they discovered through Anne Briggs and their first single from their upcoming debut self-titled album, due out January 23rd 2020.
Nadia Reid announces new album ‘Out of My Province’. Set for releases on 6th March 2020 via Spacebomb, watch her video for lead single ‘Best Thing’ which recalls PJ Harvey’s tender moments.
