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.
Filmed in the late summer of 2021 in a field near the Gate To Southwell Folk Festival, watch John Spiers and Jon Boden performing Bailey Hill / Wittenham Clumps from their latest album ‘Fallow Ground’. The duo are on tour in June.
Bristol-based folk duo Fritillaries release their beautiful new single ‘Unearthing’ today, accompanied by a stunning video by Giulia Franchi which we have the pleasure of sharing on Folk Radio today.
Mags’ 21st is the funky new roots single from Corner House, a young American quartet with Scottish ties featuring Orkney-born fiddler Louise Bichan, mandolin player Ethan Setiawan, cellist Casey Murray and guitarist Ethan Hawkins.
The Breath, Thea Gilmore, Edward II, 3 Daft Monkeys, Amythyst Kiah, Lady Nade, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and The Haar are among the latest artists to join the line-up for this summer’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival.
Alex Rex announces new poetry/drone record “Mouthful Of Earth” featuring music from Richard Youngs, Alastair Galbraith & Lavinia Blackwall. Listen to the first cut from the album ‘Wastwater’ – “…a love letter written in light. It was inspired by the uncanny valleys of the Lake District.”
Magpies members Bella Gaffney and Holly Brandon are playing a short tour together in late April, Bella solo and Holly in her side project Painted Sky with her brother George.
Watch Kate Rusby and one of the world’s great vocal groups, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, performing her Mayday song “We Will Sing” which opens her new album 30 : Happy Returns.
The award-winning Canadian bluegrass outfit The Slocan Ramblers return with their new album Up the Hill and Through the Fog in June. Taken from the album, watch them performing Harefoot’s Retreat, a toe-tapper from start to finish underpinned by their bold, dynamic sound.
