Our Artist of the Month for August is Dougie MacLean who celebrates 40 years as a professional musician, read our exclusive in-depth interview in which we look back at his career and to the future.
With a superb new album, Songs and a schedule that sees John Fullbright in the UK for two tours, FRUK caught up with him for an exclusive chat about his art and what makes him tick. (Part 1 of 2)
We continue our series of ‘Sidmouth Folk Week Memories’ on the countdown to to their Diamond Anniversary with multi-instrumentalist and singer Jo Freya.
With their second album available now, Dave Derby gives FRUK an exclusive insight into his musical history and some of the things that feed into and inspire Gramercy Arms.
Kris Drever tells us about his new Mareel EP with Éamonn Coyne. Look out for them at Sidmouth and touring in September plus listen to their revisited version of Winter Moon.
This year has been a busy one for Emily Smith with the wonderful Echoes and her Ten Years compilation. Emily took some time out for an FRUK exclusive, filling in the story so far.
Paul heads to The Islington to catch Canadian based band The Barr Brothers and manages to catch 5 minutes with Brad Barr to talk about their music. One to watch for!
We continue our series of ‘Sidmouth Folk Week Memories’ on the countdown to to their Diamond Anniversary with young Devon folk singer and musician Jim Causley.
Johnny reviews Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin’s new album Live in Calstock. As an added bonus he also catches up with them at Steve Knightley’s Family Day at Abbotsbury to talk about their music.
Twelfth Day kindly take some time out of their incredibly busy schedules to answer questions about their musical partnership and their exciting plans for the months ahead.
Read our latest Sidmouth Folk Week interview: English singer and melodeon/concertina player…and dancer/founder of Shropshire Bedlams – John Kirkpatrick
