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.
The Weather Station is excited to finally announce a North American and European tour in support of her latest album ‘Ignorance’, out now via Fat Possum. The Ignorance tour will present Lindeman’s sophisticated new sound performed by a full band.
Josienne Clarke shares video for ‘Sit Out’, a gutsy and defiant new single taken from her forthcoming new album “A Small Unknowable Thing” which takes in a wide range of new and diverse influences. It’s also our Song of the Day.
Ulster trio TRÚ talk us through their new album ‘No Fixed Abode’, offering a brilliant insight into each of the songs on their new album. It features some great stories and background…including mythology, changelings, faeries and Japanese folklore.
Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Alabama’, the exceptionally moving new album single from HAV, featuring the award-winning Scots singer Iona Fyfe…a beckoning beacon of light for their new album.
The Knoydart Songwriting Retreat offer five-day immersive songwriting retreats in what’s regarded as Scotland’s last great wilderness. Jon Boden heads up their first in September 2021 which promises to be an inspirational, magical and unforgettable week.
Seafoam Green, the Irish songwriting duo Dave O’Grady and Muireann McDermott Long, deliver some outstanding classic-sounding rock n’ soul on ‘For Something To Say’, their latest single from ‘Martin’s Garden’, their new album, out now on Mellowtone Records.
Taken from Mason Lindahl’s deceptively intricate album ‘Kissing Rosie in the Rain’, watch the accompanying video for ‘Outside Laughing’, directed and edited by LA-based award-winning filmmaker and writer Michael Roberson.
