Don’t miss the livestream this evening from Dublin-based duo Saint Sister with Lisa Hannigan & Crash Ensemble. Also showing on Folk Radio UK’s Facebook page.
Watch the video for “One Too Many Mornings”, Jason McNiff’s new single and reimagining of a Bob Dylan favourite. It’s also the first track from a covers album he is currently in the process of making.
His first new material in three year’s, Will Varley returns on October 15, with The Hole Around My Head, listen to his lead single “Pushing Against Us”.
We chat with internationally acclaimed artist David Suff about his new book “Walking on Skylark Ridge” – part nature diary, part autobiography, this collection of writing and drawings documents our relationship with the local natural world through one year.
Our Song of the Day comes from composer and performer Antoni O’Breskey with “Eighteen Years Old”. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Blessed Sadness’, it features a talented array of musicians including the enchanting vocals of his daughter Consuelo Nerea Breschi of Varo.
Serious Child and Andy Ruddy reveal their humorous video for their second album single “Turn the Music Down”, a song written in response to creatives being told to give up their careers. Their new album “talk about the weather” is out in September.
More tickets have just been released for top name concerts at A Celebration of Sidmouth Folk Festival – a whole week of music and merriment that will swing into action from July 30 to August 6.
Listen to Joe Troop’s new single ‘Red, White & Blues’, a timely release about the “ridiculousness of white identity in the US”. Taken from his solo album “Borrowed Time”, out August 20 on Free Dirt Records.
Our Song of the Day comes from Estonian singer, violinist, experimental electronic artist and composer Maarja Nuut. Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Hinged’, ‘Kutse tantsule’ is a kind invitation to join her for a little dance.
Villagers reveal new single and video “So Simpatico”…a song of devotion; whether to a person, the self, or the art of being, a struggle for authenticity is at its core.
Texas-based RF Shannon reveal video for their new single ‘Dublin, Texas’ which finds them extending their roots across the Atlantic to Ireland. The video features ancestral spirits…and rain.
Russell Potter’s private press LPs A Stone’s Throw (1979) and Neither Here Nor There (1981) have been reissued by Tompkins Square…”recorded in the last waning days of the initial American Primitive explosion.”
