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…
The former Civil Wars member, Joy Williams, talks to us about the journey from her last album “Venus” to her latest offering “Front Porch”, life-simplifying and coming home.
We talk to Emily Portman about how she developed her distinctive sound, the role of traditional folk in her music, working with others including the Furrow Collective and helping others to develop similar skills.
We talk to Master concertina player and Northumbrian piper Alistair Anderson who will be teaching a course at the Dartington International Summer School this August. He talks about his introduction to folk music, his career and appearing in a music video with Kate Bush.
Johnny catches up with Richard Shindell in Costa Del Folk for an in-depth conversation about his song writing – meaning and inspiration, his move to Argentina, the need for refuge and more.
We talk to The Askew Sisters, one of the most refreshing and exciting acts in folk music, about their new album Enclosure which is set to be one of the albums of the year.
Ross Wilson, aka Blue Rose Code, talks to Folk Radio UK about his new show ‘This Is Caledonian Soul’ which returns to The Queen’s Hall in August and heads to London’s Union Chapel in September.
