KLOF Staff

Shrewsbury Folk Festival announces a further wave of artists for 2023, including Joachim Cooder, Moya Brennan, The Dreamer’s Circus, The Hanging Stars, Reg Meuross and more.

Indie folk singer-songwriter Ivan Moult is set to release his third album “Songs From Severn Grove” tomorrow on Welsh label Bubblewrap Records. You can hear it in full and read Ivan’s Track-by-Track guide on Folk Radio today.

Recorded at Panoramic House, outlaw country group Mapache have pushed their sound to new heights on their new album Swinging Stars. Watch the video for their lead single People Please.

Gate To Southwell Festival have called this year’s festival their most international, entertaining and musically diverse event yet, with more names still to be announced. The current lineup includes Jake Blount, The Raghu Dixit Project, Tom Russell, Morton Valence, Bonfire Radicals and lots more.

The Devil’s On The Mast (Out on 2nd June) finds The Ciderhouse Rebellion joining forces with Kirsty Merryn (Cider with Kirsty). Watch their stunning new video for their album track ‘Belladonna’ featuring dancer and choreographer Anna Smith.

Stick in the Wheel have released an icy, stripped-back, harder and darker re-framing of the dystopian trad-offering, The Cuckoo, on St Tiburtius Day (14 April) – traditionally the first day cuckoos are heard.

Produced by the legendary Dirk Powell, listen in full to ‘Angels in the Wreckage’, the forthcoming new album from New England-based folk band Low Lily, and read their track-by-track.

Our Song of the Day comes from The Saxophones with The Mist, from their new album ‘To Be A Cloud’, which was influenced by the peaceful bays, ridges and beaches of Inverness, California. With musical nods to Eden’s Island and Stan Getz’s bossa nova records.

Shirley Collins returns with Archangel Hill, her third album for Domino. Due for release on May 26th, she has today shared her lead single and video ‘High and Away’. The album showcases another peerless collection of songs chosen by Collins, most from traditional sources but others from favourite writers of hers.

Gretchen Peters returns to the UK in May for her final run of shows, following her announcement that she will retire from full-scale touring this year. She Said “It’s important to me to have the opportunity to let UK fans know just how much their support has meant to me. I literally don’t think I’d have a touring career without them.”

Ben Walker offers an insight into the making of his new album, Banish Air from Air, also one of our Featured Albums of the Month, and shares how pushing himself into new territory helped to shape his vision.

Terry Emm premieres the animated video for his calypso-inspired ‘Island Soul’, the third single to come from his forthcoming album ‘Wish You Were Here’, due out May 19th. It features the sweet vocals of Maz O’Connor and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Drinkwater who also produced the track.