Having spent their long and distinguished career of collaboration exploring Christmas and timeless religious music, Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band’s new tour Chapel and Tavern, sees them celebrate the lives and culture of ordinary folk.
Watch Australian guitarist Darren “D.C” Cross performing “Brumby”, a track that is featured on the new album ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’, which was curated by Buck Curran.
From his forthcoming debut album, watch the accompanying video to ‘The Coo Coo’, the new single from Mike Tod. It all works so well, from the brilliantly haunting arrangements to the animated video. We’re looking forward to hearing more.
Your Heart Breaks invite us to walk the beach and examine the detritus of life washed up on the shore. Watch their new video for Wesley Crusher featuring Kimya Dawson.
Our Song of the Day is Devil’s Nine Questions, the new single from the global folk collective Mishra, joined by Indian classical vocalist Deepa Shakthi. It really is an outstanding single.
Watch the stunning new visualiser video from Hack-Poets Guild for ‘Something to Love Me’, taken from their forthcoming debut album, Blackletter Garland, which is out this week on 10 March.
Taken from his new double album El Tiradito (The Curse of Sinner’s Shrine), watch the video for Dean Owens’ ‘She Was A Raven’ on which he is joined once again by members of Calexico. Also, don’t miss Dean Owens and The Sinners upcoming tour dates.
With dreamier, pop leanings, Brigid Mae Power shares ‘Dream From The Deep Well’, the title track of her forthcoming new album and our Song of the Day. Brigid is touring intimate folk clubs and garden cafe spaces across the UK this month.
Alongside The Waterboys, This is the Kit, Sona Jobarteh, The Longest Johns and Lady Maisery, Nick Mulvey completes the Folk by the Oak Main Stage Line-up for Sunday, 16th July 2023.
Emerging Midlands musician, Elizabeth J Birch pays a powerful and heartfelt tribute to trade unionist and suffragist Mary MacArthur by singing Rouse Ye Women in a new video release for International Women’s Day 2023.
Kris Drever will tour with his own band this summer. To celebrate, Reveal Records have issued an expansive (36-song) career-spanning compilation album that features three exclusive new songs “Catterline”, “Punchbag”, and “Dust in Light” (written with label mate Boo Hewerdine).
The Norway-based Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra release “The Broken Circle Sessions” today; watch them performing their album opener ‘Heaven and Hell’ as a 15-strong orchestra in front of a sold-out audience.
