John Elliott (The Little Unsaid) is to stream an online concert from the beautiful St Giles’ Church, London on Sunday 12th December. 50% of donations will go to the Single Homeless Project who help vulnerable and socially excluded people in London transform their lives.
Taken from their latest album Tonebeds For Poetry and featuring the artwork of writer, illustrator and printmaker, Nick Hayes, Stick in the Wheel have shared a visually stunning and haunting video for “The Seafarer”, a 10th Century poem.
Cambridge Folk Festival reveal the first names for 2022 including Spell Songs, Spiers & Boden, Katherine Priddy, Passenger, Seasick Steve, Suzanne Vega, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, This Is The Kit, Show of Hands, Julie Fowlis, N’famady Kouyaté, VRï & more.
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.
