A Broken House is a moving documentary that tells the story of Mohamad Hafez who comes to the U.S. on a single-entry visa to study architecture, and, when he realizes that he can’t return to his home country, conjures home in his art.
Over the weekend (4th December), The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards were held at Glasgow’s Engine Works, and broadcast live on BBC ALBA. The winners included Kris Drever, Iona Fyfe and Kim Carnie.
Having just won Gaelic Singer of the Year Award over the weekend, Kim Carnie has launched a Kickstarter Campaign for her debut album “And So We Gather”. It features over 40 artists including Julie Fowlis, Kathleen MacInnes, Karen Matheson and Clockwork Sessions Orchestra.
In 2010, a group of volunteers revived a neglected Victorian orchard. Now, after years of hard work, the trees are once again bearing fruit. The spirit of collectivism that made it possible is being celebrated in a new single by Harp & a Monkey.
On Wednesday, 15th December, Mark Radcliffe will be joined on his Folk Show by fellow folk presenters Lynette Fay, Bruce MacGregor and Frank Hennessy to make a radio tour of the UK, toasting the best music, moments and events of 2021.
Previously known as Rainy Day Woman, Hannah Pawson and Gabriel Wynne relaunch as Fritillaries and share new single ‘Working Late’, a brooding song of anger and frustration about the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.
We shine the spotlight on French duo Cocanha (Lila Fraysse & Caroline Dufau), who sing in Occitan, a beautifully poetic yet endangered language. Their latest album, Puput, is one of the most adventurous folk music albums we’ve heard in some time.
Today, Icelandic singer-songwriter Arny Margret releases her beautiful and eagerly anticipated debut single ‘intertwined’ via One Little Independent Records.
Taken from his new album Good and Green Again, Jake Xerxes Fussell shares two new songs – traditional song ‘Breast of Glass’ and instrumental with vocables ‘Frolic’. He tours the UK in May 2022.
Featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, The Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee, watch the premiere of ‘Trouser Worrier’, the first single of We Are The Monsters.
Fresh from an exhilarating sold-out show at Whelan’s in Dublin and a double award-winning appearance at the 2021 RTE Folk Awards, John Francis Flynn today announces his first solo show at Vicar Street, Dublin alongside extensive UK tour dates.
We rewind the clock to 1974 and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Watch archive footage featuring Planxty, Loudon Wainwright III, Arlo Guthrie and more. From the canvas tents to the impromptu laid-back performances, this short video is dripping in gorgeous folk nostalgia.
