On 11th October 2019, Richard Dawson is set to return with his sixth solo album 2020 which is already being called his “hardest-hitting and unflinchingly honest album to date” and “his poetic masterwork.” Pre-Order now.
Watch the new video from Sarah Jane Scouten for her new single “Ballad of a Southern Midwife”. The video comes from a 1931 silent film about the Frontier Nursing Services in rural Kentucky, which still runs today.
Taken from his forthcoming album Detritus (out on November 15, 2019), Brighton’s Marcus Hamblett has today released his new single ‘Lost At Sea’ which features Kate Stables of This Is The Kit.
We rewind the clock to 2009 to one of my all-time favourite albums – James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Folk Songs. Watch them in session including a short documentary.
Billy Bragg has announced Best Of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 – 2019, featuring classic performances by Bragg at the BBC from the early 80s through to the present; fully remastered, featuring many previously unreleased tracks & more.
Tatiana Dordzhieva & Maria Beltsykova come from Kalmykia, a region in the southwestern part of European Russia. This album of field recordings features them performing religious Buddhist songs, droning laments, ceremonial wedding songs, heroic ballads and more.
This month saw the release of The Lines We Draw Together, the new album from Rowan Rheingans. Watch her new video for album track “Lines” and don’t miss her album launch, with her full band, at Kings Place on Sept 5th.
Meet Arcade, a collaboration featuring Ireland’s Heidi Talbot and Scotland’s Adam Holmes. Their new album ‘Face The Fall’ will be released on Drala Records on October 4th and will tour around the UK this autumn.
Lo-fi folk explorers The Diamond Family Archive have announced the release of Black Autumn on Limited Edition vinyl via Peg Doll Records. Take a listen to the final track ‘The Opposite Of Blind’ which features an old pump organ from 1880.
Watch Northern Ireland-based sibling trio and BBC Young Folk Award nominees ‘Cup O’Joe’ performing ‘Till I met You’, an original song that will be on their upcoming album. It’s also our Song of the Day.
Steve Knightley of Show of Hands and historian Michael Wood are presenting a unique performance of “Songs of the People: Music from the English Radical Tradition” at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre at the Globe in London on 8th September.
Tiny Ruins announce the release of Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album ahead of a US tour date with Aldous Harding and solo Autumn tour of the UK and Europe.
