An Tinne (The Chain) is a project led by SEALL, and Skye Gaelic singer Anne Martin linking a collection of songs, stories and objects across the centuries between Scotland and Australia.
The organisers of Gate to Southwell have confirmed that the 15th festival will now take place from July 14th to 17th 2022. Names include Peat & Diesel, Dervish, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Chris While and Julie Mathews, Greg Russell and Danny Pedlar and more.
Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis has released a digital EP featuring songs she composed to accompany the Source To Sea podcast series in which Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travel the length of three major Scottish rivers (The River Dee, River Tay and River Clyde).
Sam Sweeney announces ‘Solo’, the first in a series of EPs that highlight the band members who performed on his acclaimed album ‘Unearth Repeat’. Listen to opening track “Untitled Waltz #1 / Tweedside”.
During the summer of 2021, Northern collective ‘Harp and a Monkey’ worked on a commission to capture an aural representation of everyday life for inhabitants of the Peak District in Derbyshire. Watch the accompanying video ‘Birdsong and Bells: The Peak Sound Project’.
Watch the video for ‘Meeting Is Over’, the new single from Moira Smiley featuring Piers Faccini and Seamus Egan – a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. The perfect end-of-year song.
Simon Jones of Harp & a Monkey shares Royal Mail, a song and video animation inspired by the vintage Ladybird book ‘The Postman And The Postal Service’. It’s taken from his debut solo album ‘How Things Work’ which he has just finished recording.
As part of the Unwrapped Series at Kings Place, London, Unity in Song is a weekend celebration of powerful voices from the folk tradition, and the joy of community singing. Ft. Martin & Eliza Carthy, Cara Dillon, Peggy Seeger, Green Ribbons and more.
The Sidmouth Folk Festival returns in grand style in summer 2022 with main stage headliners including Kate Rusby, Eddi Reader, Show of Hands, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Spiers and Boden, Jez Lowe, Granny’s Attic, Yves Lambert Trio and more.
West Co. Sligo native BRÍDÍN does not do things in small measures. For her EP launch, she performed on a Boeing 767 that her dad transported from Shannon Airport, along the west coast of Ireland to Sligo by tug and barge. Watch the launch here.
Max Richter is to give the only British performance in 2022 of his acclaimed work ‘Voices’ and his classic piece ‘Infra’ at the COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre. Whether you are new to Richter’s work or not, this is sure to be a moving and unforgettable experience.
