Celtic Connections has announced the first list of artists who will perform as part of their digital-first festival this January. Across 19 days, the festival will present online performances every night between Friday 15th January – Tuesday 2nd February 2021.
The Canadian Folk Music Awards have announced their 2021 nominees which feature a number of artists featured on Folk Radio UK including Pharis & Jason Romero, William Prince, The East Pointers, Catherine MacLellan, Basia Bulat, Maya Rae & more.
Our Song of the Day comes New Orleans-based singer, songwriter and musician Esther Rose who has just signed to Full Time Hobby. Watch her performing her new single ‘Keeps Me Running’.
Boo Hewerdine and Findlay Napier launch a series of songwriting workshops aimed at creative people in Scotland whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival announces first major line-up for 2021 including Judy Collins, Carlos Núñez, The Lost Words: Spell Songs, Lindisfarne, Show of Hands, Oysterband and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from INEZ. Watch the accompanying video for ‘In a Minute’…mystic Americana at its very best…a gorgeous and sumptuous feast of guitars and sublime vocals, perfectly visualised in Baschi Thommen.
Other Voices announce five-day digital festival ‘Bringing It All Back Home’. Featuring Brigid Mae Power, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Niamh Regan, Sun Collective, Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi and more.
Ahead of his new album, folk musician, Jon Wilks, has released a recording of a traditional Christmas Carol, with lyrics from Birmingham that have not been heard since the 1820s.
Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes will perform a livestream concert from Dublin National Concert Hall with the Common Ground Ensemble, rooted in the Irish tradition but possessing a wealth of talent spanning improvisation, arrangement, jazz, and cutting edge contemporary classical.
Multi-award-winning Scottish band Skerryvore has announced the release of a brand new, high energy single, You & I, set for release at 7pm on Friday, 27 November via a Youtube Watch Party.
On his latest single ‘In Painter’s Light’, taken from his forthcoming album ‘Arrivals’, Declan O’Rourke sings of his dream and childhood ambition of one day being a painter…rising with the dawn to mix his colours…
Veteran folk revivalist and troubadour, Michael Chapman, has announced a special concert, recorded during lockdown in York’s stunning Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, to be broadcast online on Sunday 29th November.
