Rob Bridge

Riding the wave of his hugely popular ‘corona collaborations’ series and successful album-crowdfunding campaign, Ciaran Algar has expanded the project further to include an online festival taking place this weekend. 

We talk to Ciaran Algar about his ‘Corona Collaboration’ project.  After starting out as a way just to pass the time during lockdown, the project has built a large fan-base, featured twice on National television and is now being turned into a crowdfunded album project.

Rob Bridge catches up with Cole and Joe from India Electric Co. over Skype for an in-depth chat about ‘The Gap’, their glorious and innovative second album. Plus, watch their new video for album single ‘Great Circles’.

Rob talks to Somerset-based folk singer and song writer Kitty Macfarlane about her debut album ‘Namer of Clouds’, an album “full of old wisdom and bubbling over with new ideas”.

We talk to English folk trio Moore Moss Rutter about their new album III, how they as musicians as well as their sound has evolved since they formed and more. They are touring in November and then they plan to spend some creative time together over winter…

Rhiannon Giddens called it ‘one of the best weekends of her life.’ In a Cambridge Folk Festival Special, Rob Bridge captures the magic of the weekend in a great set of backstage interviews, photos and more.

On their EP trilogy, India Electric Co. have set out to not only explore different musical pathways in search of their sound but to take us (the audience) on that journey with them. Rob sat down with Cole and Joe one afternoon during their UK headline tour to find out more about the motivation behind the EP trilogy.

Rob Bridge catches up with John Smith at Kenilworth Arts Festival. He talks about his new album ‘Headlong’ and his involvement in Martin Simpson’s new album ‘Trails and Tribulations’. He also manages to capture John performing ‘Save My Life’ live.

Rob caught up with The Indigo Girls while at Cambridge Folk Festival this year and talked to them about song writing, politics, the changing face of the music industry and their plans for the future including their next album.

Rob shares his highlights of this years Cambridge Folk Festival in photos and words. He talks to Frank Turner, Jon Boden, Daoirí Farrell, The Worry Dolls, The Furrow Collective and more.

We catch up with Toby Hay on tour. He talks about his new album The Gathering and shares with us news about his new album for which a new guitar has been built specifically for Toby by Roger Bucknall at Fylde Guitars.

Rob Bridge talks to Elly Lucas about her stunning photography and she takes us behind the scenes of some of her folkie photo shoots- Emily Mae Winters, Lucy Ward, Hannah Sanders, Kate Young and Jess Morgan – Elly also reveals that she has a new musical project on the way.

Rob catches up with Alasdair Roberts during his Pangs Tour to talk about his new album, his early influences from traditional folk to Glasgow’s underground DIY scene and his need to always be creating something new. An obsession he has continually rewarded us with.

Rob caught up with Modern Studies in Birmingham while they were on tour promoting their debut album ‘Swell to Great.’ While the tour is over the momentum created by the reception of their album isn’t as they prepare for their BBC Quay Session in Glasgow next month.

Blue Rose Code put on a spectacular performance at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall for his Homecoming show. One which featured some of Scotland’s finest musicians, as well as a more than fifty members of Edinburgh and Glasgow Contemporary choirs – a musical celebration of everything that’s wonderful about this region of the country.

Rob catches up with Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts and looks back on their career as a duo, this year marks the tenth anniversary and to mark the occasion they released a live album, recorded over ten different gigs during the spring of this year.

Read our in-depth interview with Nancy Kerr as she discusses her new album ‘Instar’, the reaction to it, politics in music, balancing her musical life with being a mother, and she also offers her own words of wisdom on surviving in the music industry.

Read our in-depth interview with Jim Moray as he talks about his past challenges and new album ‘Upcetera’… “Throughout our conversation, he repeatedly makes it clear that in his own mind, his previous career as a solo artist is now closed. ‘Upcetera’ is something different; a fresh start…a ‘New Chapter.’”