After three long years, the Orkney Folk Festival returns to a full-scale live event this weekend. Folk fans at home can also tune into this weekend’s festivities, with the addition of three recently announced live-streamed festival concerts.
The Magpie Arc, the cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Scotland featuring the multi-award-winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter and Martin Simpson, take flight in 2022 with selected tour dates and festivals.
Watch Pharis & Jason Romero performing ‘Cannot Change It All’ and ‘Old Bill’s Tune’ from their forthcoming new album ‘Tell ’Em You Were’; out June 17th on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Years and Years is the reflective new single from Amy Thatcher and her first foray into songwriting which takes us on a thoughtful and honest journey where Amy explores an internal fight for freedom.
Taken from her new album Found Light due out 8th July via Bella Union, Laura Veirs has shared her new single and video, “Seaside Haiku”. Additionally, Veirs has announced that she’ll be appearing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Friendship have shared news of their new album ‘Love the Stranger’ (29th July on Merge) with the track ‘Hank’ – coming in as if David Burman found his way onto one of those early Real Estate bumpers.
Taken from her sixth studio album ‘Yours Aye’, watch Jill Jackson’s latest video for “I Wouldn’t Do That”. Jill has a string of performances lined up for 2022 including support for Eddi Reader across the UK and Ireland.
Featuring a blazing mid-point entry on sax from Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall shares “Saturday Pt. 2” which concludes a mini-suite that forms the penultimate movement of “Hello, Hi”.
To celebrate their 10 years on the folk scene, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith will embark on an anniversary tour this autumn. They will present a retrospective show with songs & tunes taken from across their 4 albums plus a few new offerings.
USA folk-roots duo Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno are heading to the UK for a short tour in late May/early June 2022, including appearances at two festivals: Bluegrass Omagh in Northern Ireland and Fire in the Mountain in Wales.
Amythyst Kiah reveals her alt-rock influences on her latest single, a cover of Tori Amos’ ‘Sugar’, who is also one of her musical mentors. She has a number of UK & European dates this summer and later in the year.
