Rob Bridge

Rob catches up with Tobias ben Jacob shortly after the recording his first solo album, one that sees a shift in his recorded work to date with a bigger band sound and a host of special guests including Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin.

Rob captures in words and images a captivating set and a fantastic evening of acoustic music at Kenilworth Arts Festival featuring Rachel Sermanni, Luke Jackson and Kitty Macfarlane.

With their new album ‘Before the Sun’ due out this month, Rob catches up with Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage to talk about folk music, lunar cycles and cosmic patterns. Make sure you catch them on their album tour.

Rob heads to London’s Slaughtered Lamb for a live preview performance of Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker’s new album ‘Overnight’ due for release on Rough trade records on 14 Oct. 2016

John Paul White’s ‘Beulah’ is a deeply personal album that is both ambitious and revealing. “Upon emerging, it feels like you’ve been on a journey alongside the artist, the telltale sign of a remarkable record.”

With a tour of Canada just finished FRUk catch up with the UK’s finest clawhammer banjo player Dan Walsh. He talks about his music as well as his work with the Live Music Now scheme.

Rob catches a fantastic double-header event at Kenilworth Castle with multiple BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar and Will Pound & Eddy Jay, currently riding high on the back of their new album ‘Ignite’.

Rob shares with us, through words and photos, a great evening of entertainment from Megson and band (John Parker and Cliff Ward) at Cambridge Junction. An evening delivered with sincerity, humour and talent.

“It’s like this” says Will Pound and then demonstrates on his harmonica the ‘triplet’ technique that he and Eddy Jay have just been attempting to explain to me. I nod, giving them my full attention while pretending to understand…Read Rob’s interview with Will & Eddy.

Rob Bridge sits down with Edd Donovan for a chat about his new album Making Mountains (vol 1), the result of a year spent juggling his creative pursuits alongside the demands of a family and full-time career as a social worker.

Rob catches up with the Cornwall based singer song-writer and 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominee Sam Kelly for a down-to-earth chat about his fascinating journey in music so far and his future plans.

Folk Radio UK catch up with Irish singer songwriter Mick Flannery in Birmingham at the end of his UK tour. He’s as mesmerising in conversation as he is on stage…

Rob caught up with Ross Wilson (AKA Blue Rose Code, our Artist of the Month) on his return from Celtic Connections for a very personal and in-depth interview about his new album …And Lo! The Bird Is On The Wing

Rob catches up with Maz O’Connor at the charming Kitchen Garden Café in Birmingham’s Kings Heath district to chat about her new album, ‘The Longing Kind’, and the Sweet Liberties project.

We talk to Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker and the duo bring us up to speed with what’s been happening including news of their new album coming out on Rough Trade in October!

Rob chats to Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar – “there’s a humour and chemistry between them that not only shines through in their music, but also makes them…well, extremely likeable.” They also have a new album on the way…

We talk to Manx singer songwriter Matt Creer whose latest album ‘The Leeward Tide’ merges merges folk music traditions with the more contemporary to dramatic effect.

With her new single ‘Alternate Reality’ out today (also our Song of the Day) Rob managed to catch up with Dutch-English singer/songwriter Gitta de Ridder for one of our ‘photo / interview’ features in which he spoke to Gitta about her new single and forthcoming album.