Taken from their Topic Records debut, ‘Ink Of The Rosy Morning’, watch the latest video from Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage for ‘Polly O Polly’. Hannah also recalls how she first heard the song performed by David Holt while at a festival with her parents.
Watch Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan performing ‘The Old Men Of The Shells’, a song by Alasdair Roberts that featured on his 2007 album The Amber Gatherers. Karine and Dave are on tour in May 2022 including the Edinburgh Tradfest.
Award-winning American folk-roots artist Jake Blount and his band are heading to the UK for a two-week tour in late May/early June 2022, culminating with performances at Fire in the Mountain festival.
Taken from Charlie Dore’s 2020 album ‘Like Animals’, watch Charlie and Michele Stodart’s stunning and surreal new video for ‘A Hundred Miles of Nothing’ filmed at Didcot Railway Centre. The pair are planning to do some live gigs together in 2022/23.
Lush have announced another triple vinyl folk compilation, this time covering the 1980s that includes Jackie Oates, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Marry Waterson, Teddy Thompson, Lisa Knapp, Stealing Sheep and more. Watch Martha Tilston covering Kate Bush’s classic Cloudbusting.
An exceptional and meticulously crafted single, listen to ‘Sweet Joan’, the latest offering from Bay Bryan, taken from their upcoming debut concept album, The Meadow, due for release in 2023.
Taken from Lily Henley’s forthcoming album Oras Dezaoradas, a collection of beautiful Judeo-Spanish Folk Songs, listen to ‘Avre Tu Puerta Serrada’. Henley’s approach to this Sephardic tradition is inspiring, refreshing and enduring.
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, members of the Sheffield and Leeds folk scene perform Ewan MacColl’s The Manchester Rambler on Kinder Scout in Peak District National Park.
Anna Tivel has signed to hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co. and shared a new song called “Astrovan”. She performs the song in the first of the label’s new series, The Schoolhouse Sessions, shot at their new headquarters outside Portland.
Taken from his latest album ‘Last of the Better Days Ahead’ and ahead of his UK & Ireland Tour next month, watch Charlie Parr performing ‘817 Oakland Avenue’ live.
Rachel Baiman and Kris Drever have announced a co-billed tour this spring across the UK. This week they are releasing a new single, a stunning remake of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Hard Times in Babylon”. The accompanying video premieres on Folk Radio UK.
Taken from his new album, You and I Must Be Out of My Mind, Folk-Americana singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dietrich Strause shares his stunning new video for ‘Call to Me’, a song with a delicate gauze-like quality, evoking both tenderness and fragility.
