Multi-instrumentalist, singer, song writer Amy Duncan announces her sixth studio album, Antidote. Antidote promises to be even more remarkable than Undercurrents, with Amy finding new freedom to write and record. Help support the release via her Pledge Campaign.
Watch Dave Burn, the former vocalist and guitarist of alt-country band ahab, performing ‘Fine Company,’ the opening track from his debut solo album Arizona.
As Martha Tilston announces details of her new album NOMAD released via Squiggly Records on May 12th take a listen to her new double A-side single ‘Nomad Blood’/‘Little Arrow.’
The first names are announced for FolkEast 2017 which promises to be another fantastic year with names such as Jon Boden, Michael Chapman, Simpson, Cutting and Kerr, Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick, Ninebarrow and more.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Antiseptic Greeting,’ courtesy of Oklahoma-born Samantha Crain. Taken from her fifth album with ‘You Had Me At Goodbye’. Out on Full Time Hobby on 24th March.
The tension has been building with the promise of this new video from The Staves for Tired as F**k, a fan favourite that has featured in their live set for the past year. It features on their new double A Side and coincides with their upcoming tour.
Madrid-based Track Dogs have announced a series of dates in the UK and Ireland. The band’s last album Serenity Sessions featured in Neil’s Top Ten Albums of 2016 so well worth checking out if you get the chance.
Our song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell. Furniture Man is taken from his second full-length album, What in the Natural World, an album that explores the traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors.
Jesca Hoop has shared her new video for Memories Are Now, the title track from her critically acclaimed new album, available worldwide on Sub Pop from tomorrow. The mesmeric video was directed by award-winning animator/illustrator Annlin Chao
The nominations for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards have been announced. Along with the Lifetime Achievement Award and entry into the Hall of Fame the lineup for Awards night at the Royal Albert Hall has also been revealed.
Watch the video premiere for Rooftops, the new single from Cumbrian-born singer-songwriter Laura James. The video explores a concept centred on an apocalyptic walk through rural Northeast Scotland which she explains more on here.
