With a highly anticipated forthcoming solo album Nathaniel Rateliff returns to his early acoustic days with the And It’s Still Alright tour which will feature many facets of Rateliff’s musicianship—ranging from stripped-back moments to the accompaniment of a full band.
After embarking on a solo career, releasing his debut solo album The Unfinished Violin on Island Records and touring it to sell-out crowds in 2019, Sam Sweeney is releasing his highly anticipated second solo album, Unearth Repeat, on Hudson Records in March 2020.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan share new single “The Shearing’s Not For You”, a traditional song James first heard sang by Aberdeenshire Traveller Jeannie Robertson. It features on their new album “Navarasa : Nine Emotions ” out on January 24th.
Watch Toby Hay performing “The Summer the Sky Cried For Rain” live at the state51 Factory, it’s taken from his latest album, ‘New Music For The 12 String Guitar’.
Sidmouth Folk Festival has announced the first names for 2020 including Show of Hands, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Eddi Reader, Home Service (with John Tams), Eliza Carthy including pre-festival shows featuring Steeleye Span and The Fisherman’s Friends.
On her latest single, Mary Chapin Carpenter reflects on the passing of time with “Our Man Walter Cronkite”, named after the CBS Evening News anchorman who was called “the most trusted man in America”.
The winners of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards emerged last night at Aberdeen Music Hall in a live-broadcast ceremony. Winners included Kinnaris Quintet, Breabach, Mary Ann Kennedy, Blazin’ Fiddles and more.
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.
