Our Tune of the Day comes from Leveret, watch them performing a couple of upbeat dance tunes live. ‘Ellis Knowles’ No. 7′ and ‘The Honey Moon’ feature on their new album Diversions.
Nottinghamshire’s Gate to Southwell Festival announces themed days for this year’s event which features Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Skipinnish, Nancy Kerr, Blue Rose Code, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys and more.
The musical connections between three of Scotland’s island groups – Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides – are to be celebrated at this year’s Orkney Folk Festival, with two collaborative concerts.
Taken from Megan Henwood & Findlay Napier’s forthcoming EP The Story Song Scientists, our Song of the Day is Wild Wild Country. Watch the accompanying video and don’t miss their March tour.
We have the pleasure of sharing with you ‘These Hours’, the latest song and video from Saskia Griffiths-Moore‘s forthcoming studio album, ‘Ocean of Stars’.
Listen to the inspirational and fresh-sounding new single ‘Dance with Me’ from Kora Feder, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘In Sevens’, an honest and poetic testament to the modern age.
Tomorrow sees the release of Lunar Vortex Incantations, the new album from Edinburgh-based songwriter and fingerstyle folk guitarist Burnt Paw. Watch his new video for the beautifully atmospheric Fire Maidens.
Our Song of the Day is Cajsa’s Tears (the lost brides) from Jonathan Peter Day’s new album ‘a Spirit Library’ out now on Niimiika Records and also one of our Featured Albums of the Month.
Fisherman’s Friends the movie is as heartwarming and wholesome as a pasty on a drizzly day in Port Isaac. And it may well take the country by storm just like the shanty men who inspired the tale. Accompanying the release is the film’s soundtrack album ‘Keep Hauling’.
Watch David Ian Roberts, alongside Kirsten Miller (Cello) and Jason Ball (electric guitar), playing ‘Sending Out Fires’ from his forthcoming album ‘Travelling Bright’, out on Cambrians Records March 15th 2019.
Steeleye Span will celebrate their 50th Anniversary this year with a tour of the UK in March and April – once more revisiting famous moments and hidden gems from their career. This will lead to the release of their 24th studio album Est 1969, later in the year.
On the latest Folk on Foot podcast, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter from Stick in the Wheel take Matthew from a Victorian weaver’s house in Spitalfields to Walthamstow Market and the Rose and Crown pub and finally onto Epping Forest…performing songs along the way.
