In our ongoing ‘Guest Feature’ The Shee tell us all about their tenth anniversary Continuum project and their nominated collaborators. For their latest post Rachel Newton tells us about her choice – the wonderfully talented Karine Polwart.
He packed in his job, bought a banjo and headed from Norway to Ireland with his trusty Vespa. For Kyrre Slind life feels like one big adventure, it was a great pleasure to share in some of them with this interview. His latest album ‘Open Airs’ is out now!
In our latest ‘Guest Feature’ The Shee will be telling us all about their tenth anniversary Continuum project, and introducing us to their nominated collaborators. Olivia Ross starts the ball rolling with her choice – Chris Wood.
Rob chats to Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar – “there’s a humour and chemistry between them that not only shines through in their music, but also makes them…well, extremely likeable.” They also have a new album on the way…
Read our in-depth interview with Northern Irish, Coleraine born, musician and singer Damien O’Kane. HIs new album ‘Areas of High Traffic’ is an extraordinary and brilliant follow-up to his 2010 solo debut.
Folk singer, musician and dancer Hannah James is about to tour her new innovative and inspiring solo show JigDoll. She took some time out before heading on the road to tell us about JigDoll, the inspiration behind it and some of the challenges she has faced.
We talk to Manx singer songwriter Matt Creer whose latest album ‘The Leeward Tide’ merges merges folk music traditions with the more contemporary to dramatic effect.
We catch up with Scottish folk singer Karen Matheson, our Artist of the Month, to talk about the background and inspiration behind her new album ‘Urram’. We also discuss Gaelic culture and a possible performance at Celtic Connections.
We catch up with the legendary folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy at Wickham Festival and, in an in-depth interview, he shares his thoughts on folk songs and the singers from whom they were collected.
We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. He heads over the sea in a force 6 to Rhum for the perhaps the most essential launch gig of the tour.
With her new single ‘Alternate Reality’ out today (also our Song of the Day) Rob managed to catch up with Dutch-English singer/songwriter Gitta de Ridder for one of our ‘photo / interview’ features in which he spoke to Gitta about her new single and forthcoming album.
We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour as he arrives in Shanghai before heading to Beijng for the final part of his China tour.
