Shirley Collins’ personal memoir ‘All In The Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song’ which was published by Strange Attractor has won the Penderyn Music Book Prize.
Jim Moray has announced his seventh studio album – The Outlander. To celebrate we have an exclusive video to share of him performing Australia. He will be previewing all the songs on tour starting tomorrow at London’s Kings Place.
Live at St Giles is the new EP from Oxford-based, Arabic jazz ensemble Brickwork Lizards. Listen to them performing Nikriz Longa, an instrumental written at the turn of the 20th century by the prolific Ottoman composer Tanburi Cemil Bey.
Australian Acid/Psych folkers Trappist Afterland will be touring the UK in June in support of their new album Insects in Amber which will be launched at “terrascope presents” Woolf 2 festival.
Fitty Gomash, that rabble-rousing eight-piece from the West Country, have released a new video for the single, Jim Jones, taken from their album No Man for our Times. Watch it here.
Anglo-French band Topette!! featuring Barnaby Stradling, Andy Cutting, Julien Cartonnet, James Delarre and Tania Buisse head out on tour this month before recording a new album. Watch their new video for a set of French polkas.
Alex Rex and Trembling Bells have released a split 10” for Record Store Day…the final two statements from Trembling Bells. Watch the accompanying video for Irish trad. “Night Visiting Song” filmed by Oliver Neilson.
The inaugural Wales Folk Awards was a triumph as The Trials of Cato, Vri, Calan and Gwilym Bowen Rhys performed to a packed hall at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
Our Song of the Day comes from the enigmatic North Wales trio Golden Fable with their stunning new single Finery which is out today, taken from their forthcoming new album Alchemy. The accompanying video takes it to another beautiful level.
Today marks the release of ‘Francis’, a powerful debut single from American singer songwriter and visual artist, Jon Campbell. Watch the accompanying stop-motion animation which was painted and directed by Campbell himself.
Norwegian artist Susanna has shared an animated video for “Wilderness” which forms a gorgeous fairytale based on her song and Hieronymus Bosch’s art; with colours, animals, spirits, different creatures and humour.
Cinder Well will tour England and Scotland from June 6th-22nd. Amelia Baker, Cinder Well’s brainchild, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist will be joined on the tour by Marit Schmidt of Vradiazei and Sangre de Muerdago.
