KLOF Staff

We take a look back at the life of Barry Coope who passed away earlier this month. He was a member of Narthen and Coope, Boyes and Simpson – a name that represents the finest a capella harmonies in the English folk world.

Taken from their exhilarating second album Odyssey, watch the accompanying video to Open Seas from the international folk sensation that is Fourth Moon featuring: Austrian Géza Frank (flute and whistles), Italian David Lombardi (fiddle), Jean Damei from France (guitar) and Andrew Waite from Scotland.

Today, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats shares three performance videos from Icehouse in Minneapolis, fittingly dubbed “Icehouse Sessions.” Check out full-band Fruit Bats performing “Eagles Below Us,” “On the Avalon Stairs,” and “Complete”.

Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Spell Songs II: Let The Light In’, listen to their profoundly moving new single ‘Birds of the Blizzard’, led by Julie Fowlis.

Real World shares a stunning new video from Montparnasse Musique for ‘Makonda’ featuring members of Kinshasa’s Bakoko collective – a group of fashion designers who combine their unique art with body performance. The garments used are exclusively made of bamboo and Mayaka seeds.

Bristol-based French folk singer Julie Abbé returns with her new single “Derrière Chez Nous”, a stunningly beautiful and deeply romantic retake on a French folk classic.

Sure to appeal to fans of the spiritual minimalism of Julia Holter and Laraaji-alike, and continuing the study in psychedelia and modulation undertaken by label alumni Bitchin Bajas and Sun Araw, Matchess will release her new album Sonoscent on Drag City on Feb 25th.

Newton Faulkner and Scottish TikTok star, Nati Dreddd join forces for a heart-warming and enriching version of ‘Winter Wonderland’ which features on his new EP ‘Christmas Light’, out this week.

Featuring Guitarist Bella Gaffney, banjo player Kate Griffin and fiddle-player Holly Brandon, watch The Magpies new video for Colin’s Set, their second single from their upcoming album. Pre-Order their album and book tickets for their 2022 spring tour.

Watch Steve Gunn performing tracks from his critically acclaimed 2021 LP, Other You in a session recorded live at the Jackie Kannon’s Rat Fink Room in NYC.

Cecil Sharp House has plenty going on this Christmas season including Belshazzar’s Feast, Celtic Christmas with Calan, A Winter Union, Freedom to Roam, The Young’uns, a New Year’s Eve Ceilidh and more.

As featured on Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series, listen to Lisa/Liza’s Rose Pedals. “a song about the balance of learning to find calm through very difficult things…”