For her fourth album, Dripping Springs, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio and a stellar crew of musicians. Listen to the results here.
Watch ‘Song Long Forgotten’, the first single from brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn who make up Dublin-based Ye Vagabonds. Their self-titled debut album is due for release on 13th October 2017.
Taken from their forthcoming second album No where In Time, Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton are well known for experimenting with traditional and original songs as they demonstrate so ably on Waterbound, a song by Dirk Powell.
Experimental folk artist Sam Amidon shares a new video for ‘Warren’ from The Following Mountain. Amidon will tour Europe this autumn. The tour includes his first headlining performance at London’s Union Chapel on October 26,
For Portland, Oregon songwriter Anna Tivel, the open road is more than a way to bring her songs to new places, it’s also a near-endless source of stories. On her new album, Small Believer she taps into the stories she hears every night, after every show. Listen in full here.
Over the next month, Kings Place will be hosting some of the very best Folk artists including Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock, Faustus, Maddy Prior, Noel Hill as well as two Album launches from Leveret and Martin Simpson.
Australia’s The Mae Trio are set to bring their unique contemporary twist on folk music to the UK. Listen to their truly sublime cover of Karine Polwart’s ‘Waterlily’ and watch their latest video for Well Enough Alone.
In a Folk Radio UK Exclusive, watch Ewan McLennan performing Down the Line – a song he recently wrote, as yet unreleased and unrecorded. It’s also our Song of the Day.
Irish band Jiggy just entered the World Music Charts and have taken the internet by storm with their new video Silent Place clocking up more than 12 million views – watch it here.
Seamus Fogarty shares ‘Heel Over Head’, another new single and accompanying video from his forthcoming album The Curious Hand. He’s also announced the guest spots for his forthcoming tour.
Johnny shares some his many highlights of this year’s FolkEast festival including The Young’uns, Jon Boden, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Martin Carthy, Hughie Jones, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, LAU, Dan Walsh, Will Pound, Damien O’Kane and many more.
