This month sees the launch of ‘Bright Field’, a new quarterly night of music and spoken word celebrating the start of each season from the borders and beyond. We chat to one of the organisers, Arts and Culture journalist Jude Rogers, about this new seasonal offering.
River Lea is a record label run by Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade along with music journalist Tim Chipping. We chat with Tim about how the label came to be which features Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Brìghde Chaimbeul, all of whom have picked up BBC Folk Award nominations this year.
David Weir chats to Lisa O’Neill backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival about Music Awards (she’s been nominated for four BBC Folk Awards), Nick Cave, Margaret Barry, songwriting and the distractions of technology and dreaming.
Danny Neill chats to Richard Thompson backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival where he shares his thoughts about hit songs, his 70th Birthday bash, recalls oversleeping in the seventies for his festival slot and the funniest far-fetched Dylan tale we’ve heard yet.
We chat to Nick Mulvey, this year’s guest curator of Cambridge Folk Festival. He talks about avenues into Ethnomusicology studies, climate crisis, his recording process and of course his personal experience – both on-and-off stage – at Cambridge.
Earlier this month saw the release of “The Trial of Bill Burn Under Martin’s Act”, the ‘snappy’ title of the new EP from Jon Wilks. Jon kindly took some time out to talk us through its delights. Jon is performing at Sidmouth Folk Festival on August 3rd.
We talk to producer, engineer and Hudson Records label owner Andy Bell about curating Folk on the Tyne, growing and supporting the music scene from the bottom up as well as plans for the future… he has a few.
Read our interview with artist extraordinaire, Jackie Morris, the co-creator of The Lost Words, a breathtaking book, which directly informed our Featured Album of the Month The Lost Words: Spell Songs.
Will Kemp interviews singer, fiddler, banjo/guitar playing songwriter Hannah Martin – one half of Edgelarks who recently released their fifth studio album Feather. Plus, watch their new video for Oyster.
A coffee with the ever-engaging Jim Moray resulted in a chat about his new album The Outlander, a project germinated from a vintage guitar that has resulted in a distilling of ideas.
We talk to Scottish singer and song writer Karine Polwart about The Lost Words: Spell Songs project as well as how she sees her own relationship between music, landscape and place – “Music and storytelling is key, because both are such elemental forms of human interconnection.”
Will Kemp talks to Alexis Bennett, a London-based composer, performer and academic with many strings to his bow from working in media and film from Pinewood to Abbey Road…and then there’s his interest in traditional folk…
