Ben Walker is to join forces with Kirsty Merryn for a new project titled Life and the Land, a celebration of England’s harvest tradition, reimagining songs born out of our agricultural past.
Watch the new video from London-based Folk musician Ned Roberts for his new single Wrong Side Of You (out today), a song about travelling to escape – yet your mind is still inexorably drawn back home.
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival reveal first names including Drever McCusker Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Magpie Arc, The Demon Barbers XL, The Breath, Jackie Oates & John Spiers, Monster Ceilidh Band, Salt House, Topette!! and more
Rachel Newton releases digital EP ‘Everything I Know Without Knowing’ inspired by the poetry of Uxue Alberdi and Ciara MacLaverty. It was recorded by Mattie Foulds while she was working on ‘Throwing Voices’ during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
FolkEast unveils the first names for 2020 including Afro Celt Sound System who will headline Saturday night, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Drever, McCusker & Woomble, The Shee, Gigspanner Big Band, Trials of Cato and more.
Listen to Mountain Man’s new single ‘You and I’, a Wilco cover which they chose to celebrate them being band members, collaborators, friends and business partners for over 10 years now.
Now in its fifth year, the festive roots music supergroup A Winter Union hit the road for their annual winter tour, armed with their brand new live album, A Winter Union – Live In Concert.
Watch Dublin-based duo Varo’s video for Sovay, a tune they discovered through Anne Briggs and their first single from their upcoming debut self-titled album, due out January 23rd 2020.
Nadia Reid announces new album ‘Out of My Province’. Set for releases on 6th March 2020 via Spacebomb, watch her video for lead single ‘Best Thing’ which recalls PJ Harvey’s tender moments.
Recorded on the Summer Solstice 2018 at The Church of Sound in Nottingham, solo guitarist Nick Jonah Davis releases a 28-minute electric improvisation as a digital single via Bandcamp.
Blending Traditional Irish Music with hints of baroque, medieval and folk influences, Varo are a Dublin-based duo from France and Italy who have just announced their plans to release a debut album. Watch them performing live at The Workman’s Club, Dublin.
Tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival which takes place 30 July – 2 August 2020 in the picturesque grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, go on sale next week on 10 December.
