ITASCA is the music of L.A.-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kayla Cohen – who will be touring Europe with RYLEY WALKER in November. Listen in full to her new album Open To Chance coming out on Paradise of Bachelors on 30 September.
Listen to Bring Down the Wall, a new track from Piers Faccini’s new album I dreamed an Island – After ten songs, a sense of nostalgia lingers for Faccini’s dreamed up utopia, an island that today seems more remote and more necessary than ever before.
On their fifth album The Memory Band return once more to the ghost-lit back-roads of British traditional music where digital machinery and acoustic musicians congregate to make old music from the future.
As part of a series of exclusive videos to Folk Radio UK watch The Gentle Good performing Un i Sain Ffagan (One for Saint Fagans) from his forthcoming new album Ruins/Adfeilion, recorded live at The Gate Arts Centre in Cardiff.
To mark Cam Penner’s return to the UK this November we have a UK video premiere for Broke Down which was recorded in and around his homemade sound machine, located in the forest and mountains of his home in B.C.
Watch the first official music video from Shirley Collins new album Lodestar. Watch ‘Death And The Lady’ which was filmed at St Leonards Church where rests the best-preserved collection of ancient human bones and skulls in Britain.
Kate Rusby will release her new album Life in a Paper Boat on October 7th. Watch her latest two videos including that Barnsley Yorkshire Tea fuelled superhero ‘Big Brave Bill’. Uk Tour kicks off this month.
Howe Gelb delves into the piano standard world of Monk, Cohen, Bacharach, Porter and Carmichael on his latest album…an attempt to write a batch of tunes that could last through the ages. Play it again Howe!
Watch the new video from Seth Faergolzia (Dufus) for ‘Wait for the Beep’, taken from his forthcoming new album High Diver – his strongest work to date. Don’t miss his UK tour in October.
‘Cutty Sark’ is playing host to some top folk performers this autumn including The James Brothers, Andy Cutting and Fisherman’s Friends who will be performing a rousing set of shanties and Cornish folk songs in a musical celebration of the 147th anniversary of Cutty Sark’s launch.
Black Angel Drifter is the lovechild of Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett and Anne Gilpin of Morton Valence. Their debut single is a skewed interpretation of Bob Dylan’s ‘The Man in the Long Black Coat’ for which we have the pleasure in premiering the video.
We have a very special premiere today from new duo Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) and Kit Downes (Trokya/Squarepusher). This new demo has come straight from the studio and is also our Tune of the Day.