Our Song of the Day comes from Scottish trio Salt House featuring Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl. Watch them performing The Same Land live, taken from their album Huam.
Broadstairs Folk Week returns this August – we share some of our favourites from their folk festival lineup including Spiers & Boden, The Magpie Arc, Yorkston/Thorne /Khan, Doyle, McCusker, McGoldrick, Flook, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards, Mishra and more.
Taken from his new album ‘Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs’, watch the accompanying video for Nick Hart’s refreshingly inventive lead single ‘Dives & Lazarus’. It’s a tour de force achievement and so brilliantly well-executed.
Dervish have now announced a string of seven UK shows, including dates in Cardiff, Cambridge and London, that will feature tracks from across their extensive back catalogue, from new arrangements from their latest critically acclaimed album to firm fan favourites.
India Electric Co. head out on tour this April, joined by percussionist Russell Field of Midge Ure. The addition brings an exciting new dynamic to their music – watch them performing Heimat live at St Ambrose Church in Bournemouth.
Ahead of her debut gig at Cambridge Junction this Saturday (26th Feb), we have the pleasure of sharing a live session from Amy Hollinrake. Supported by her band, she performs It Draws the Same which highlights both her striking vocals and complimentary folk-jazz-tinged arrangements.
West Wales-based band Sky Barkers are now a trio, a change that has given their music a whole new dynamic and drive, as can be heard on their new single “Beholden to None” on which they invite you into one of their regular daydreams.
Watch Joshua Burnell’s new single, The Snow It Melts The Soonest. “Throughout the past five…, I’ve been searching for where I fit into the world of trad music, and where the music fits in with me. This track is the moment I have found that place.”
Our EP of the Week is a joint collaboration between Cinder Well and Jim Ghedi who are also on tour together through March 2022. The songs are both haunting and emotionally stirring at the same time…”it’s as if the song chose them”.
This April, Eddi Reader, one of Scotland’s all-time greatest female voices and performers, returns to stages across Scotland, including dates in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Perth, with a special 40 Years Live Tour.
Inspired by the land and people of the East Yorkshire flatlands, Katie Spencer announces her second album ‘The Edge of the Land’. Watch the accompanying video to the title track and lead single that was filmed at Spurn Point, East Yorkshire.
Anglo-Irish luminaries Eileen Gogan and Sean O’Hagan recently released “Another Golden Day”. Taken from that EP, watch the video for “Wheels (Happy Cycling)” as Eileen, through childhood eyes, contemplates the freedom of the open road and pedal power.
