Our Artists of the Month are The Magpie Arc, a new cross-border folk/rock band featuring Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Adam Holmes, Tom A Wright and Alex Hunter. Read our interview and watch their new video ‘Greenswell’.
Darren Hayman writes in response to his own break-up album ‘Home Time’ – “one of the finest records of a consistently brilliant and varied solo career.”
A brief exploration of Chanctonbury Rings and the unsettled countryside through sounds, visions and points of reference aimed to encourage further exploration by those new to hauntology.
Farmer (FRMR) is a songwriter, poet, and verser from Desertmartin, Northern Ireland. He talks to us about the story behind the song Inver, taken from his new record Amelanchier, due for release this summer.
We chat to the Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar about their wonderful new album of traditional Irish songs set to improvised music. Cue major and minor key switching, intuition and creative satisfaction.
This month saw the release of Sam Carter’s new album ‘Home Waters’, in this special guest feature, Sam talks us through the story behind his song ‘Surprise View’ which is accompanied by a live performance filmed by Thom Atkinson.
Kate Gathercole of Alula Down (also of Sproatly Smith, Heed the Thunder) chats about new single ‘wrap your hills around our absence’ and the strange times we are in.
We receive a personal and touching note from artist and composer Lou Rogai (Lewis & Clarke) in the form of ‘A Letter From Delaware Water Gap’ accompanied by a beautiful live video for “Arrival”.
We talk to Ciaran Algar about his ‘Corona Collaboration’ project. After starting out as a way just to pass the time during lockdown, the project has built a large fan-base, featured twice on National television and is now being turned into a crowdfunded album project.
Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band) talks about the impact of the lockdown on musicians and how they are making ends meet. There may also be positives…such as placing a greater value on music.
Thomas Blake interviews the Gigspanner Big Band, our Artists of the Month, who demonstrate they are admirably democratic not just in their music-making process, but also in their interviews where everyone gets their say.
In a special guest post, Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band) talks about her own journey into folk music and how we can better attract younger people into the folk scene.
