Edinburgh Tradfest returns in 2019 kicking off at the Queen’s Hall on Friday 26 April with live music from anarchic Irish folk band Lankum. Plus: Talisk, Inge Thomson, Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona Hunter, Kaela Rowan, May Erlewine, The Fretless and lots more.
In 2019, The Sidmouth Folk Festival marks its significant 65th birthday with a re-name and a new logo that demonstrates a commitment to innovation, driving the event forward in every way while continuing to proudly champion its musical roots and long-established East Devon home.
Watch the new video for ‘Dover’ from Manchester-born indie-folk artist Joshua Howlett who is now based in a chalet near Montreux, Switzerland, and signed to Big Fam Records. It is taken from his debut EP ‘Autumnal’.
Whilst Rosie Hood is no stranger to these pages, this is the first video to be released featuring her trio with Nicola Beazley (fiddle) and Lucy Huzzard (melodeon). They possess a fresh creative spirit that’s effortlessly conveyed in their music.
Watch Seneca Creek, the new single from West Virginia-based songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin, a deeply introspective character sketch about the oft-romanticized agrarian lifestyle of Appalachia.
New Zealand artist Albert Mikolaj was transformed by a life-changing detour through South America, A.U.R.A, his solo project, is the dream canvas. Watch his beautiful video for ‘Who Decides’, also our Song of the Day…a nuanced dance of heart and mind.
Glen Hansard announces ‘This Wild Willing’, his fourth full-length album in which he marries the sonic inventiveness of the best of his work in The Frames with the discipline he’s found as a songwriter and lyricist in his solo career. Listen to lead track ‘I’ll Be You, Be Me’.
The Mammals have been on tour in the UK getting warmed up for their big show at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival tomorrow, Friday 18th January. Watch their new video for Ashokan Farewell, a tune penned by Jay Ungar, Ruthy’s father.
After six years, Woolf II – A Terrascope Celebration returns to Cleeve House in Wiltshire featuring The Bevis Frond, The Left Outsides, Sharron Kraus, Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex, Trappist Afterland, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay and more.
World-renowned Irish American supergroup The Gloaming return with their highly anticipated third studio album The Gloaming 3 on 22nd February 2019 on Real World Records. Listen to two new tracks Sheehan’s Jigs and Áthas (Joy).
Rustin Man makes his long-awaited return next month with his album Drift Code. Today see’s the release of his new single ‘Judgement Train’, which Webb describes as “the Marx Brothers in a musical version of Apocalypse Now.”
Songs for Walter, the moniker of Manchester-based Laurie Hulme, talks us through his latest album, providing a fascinating and creative insight into the inspiration behind the songs as well as the sound of ‘An Endless Summer Daze’.
