Joined by fiddler Chance McCoy, watch JP Harris performing Barbry Allen, a track taken from his forthcoming album of traditional music – “Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man” which is out later this month on Free Dirt Records.
Jame McMurtry is to release The Horses and the Hounds on August 20 via New West Records, his first for the label and his first collection in seven years.
This is the Kit announce new 7-track EP ‘Off Off Oddities’. Watch their beautiful cover of ‘Bad Feeling’ by NYC-based supergroup Muzz…a song which “was a real soothing balm during such a mental time.”
Josh Okeefe finally gets the opportunity to take his highly anticipated debut album “Bloomin’ Josh Okeefe” on the road almost a year after its release. As our reviewer said: “I’m looking forward to hearing these songs played live to an audience, where surely they will bloom even further”
Featuring fifteen world premieres, Kronos Performing Arts Association and Serious announce free online summer festival that starts on Saturday 19 June and can be enjoyed right across the summer.
John Blek shares the video for ‘Long Strand’, the lead single from his highly anticipated forthcoming album on which he is joined by Kris Drever, Cheyenne Mize, Kit Downes, as well as regular collaborators Davie Ryan and Brian Casey.
Watch the exquisite new video for “Waiting (To The Riverside)”, the latest single from Berlin-based Irish/Norwegian singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle and Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese.
Walton Folk Festival announce their return on 11 September. With a lineup featuring Trials of Cato, Jacob and Drinkwater, Gilmore & Roberts, Kim Lowings, Jenn & Laura-Beth and Odette Michell, it promises to be another great day.
Tarren is a fantastic new English folk project featuring Bristol-based artists Sid Goldsmith, Alex Garden and Danny Pedler. Watch them performing English folk ballad Rigs of the Time; an outstanding performance that lives up to the title of ambassadors for high quality, English Folk music.
The Folk Effect returns on 16 June at 7pm featuring some of the finest names in UK folk, including Ríoghnach Connolly, Kate Young, Ellie Gowers, Lisa Knapp, Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Jackie Oates.
The much loved Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg have teamed up with Matt Sweeney and Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy to present the “Watch What Happens” b/w “Stay On My Shore” digital single.
For their latest single, The Folkatron Sessions are joined by Sam Lee for ‘Three Galleys’, a classic tale of kidnap and warfare which sounds equally intricate as it does effortless and intuitive – this is cutting edge folk music.
