Our latest live session is from Edinburgh singer/songwriter Adam Holmes who now at the age of twenty has been a Celtic Connections Young Traditional Musician finalist and in February this year achieved the huge accolade of a Radio 2 Folk Award nomination for Best Newcomer.
On this week’s Friday Folk Music Club we have Jens L Thomsen, Lisa Hannigan & Richard Hawley, Horla Patrie, Alasdair Roberts, Tim Eriksen, Our Feathered Embers, The Boxer Rebellion, Alexi Murdoch, Wye Oak and bluesman Fred McDowell!
Though Balmorhea’s studio recordings never fail to impress, their songs have always been most powerful and affecting when performed live. Live At Sint-Elisabethkerk captures their magic.
With her 50′s glamour looks and sultry voice there’s not a lot not to like about Louise Hull. Combine that with perfect folk / pop / rock ‘n’ roll inspired melodies and two harmonious backing singers and you have a perfect band: Louise and the Pins
18 months after their acclaimed debut EP, The North Farm Sessions, Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell finally release their debut album Kite. Their album tour kicks off 22nd Sept.
After a five year absence, British artists are returning to the Womex world music convention this year: Juju, a collaboration between guitarist Justin Adams and Gambian griot Juldeh Camara; a figurehead of English folk music, Eliza Carthy performing with her new band; and Krar Collective.
Treetop Flyers release their new single ‘It’s About Time’ through Communion Records on 18th Sept with a launch party at London’s Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on 19th Sept.
A new series of Rockfeedback Presents will air on Channel 4 at the end of August into early October 2011. It will feature Robyn, Noah & The Whale, Joanna Newsom, Bombay Bicycle Club, Laura Marling, PJ Harvey, Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes and more.
