An Tara are East Clare duo Tommy Hayes and Matthew Noone. Combining percussion and sarode, a North Indian lute, their music ‘explores the spaces in-between the traditions of Irish and Indian Classical music.’ The results are magical.
To celebrate this year’s MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards we have a pair of tickets to giveaway for the award ceremony on Saturday 2nd December at Paisley’s Lagoon Centre. The night will be jam-packed with live performances – it will be a great night out.
Watch the new lyric video for Astronaut, from English folk artist Jeremy Tuplin….he may be the missing link between Nick Drake and ‘Space Oddity’-era Bowie. His new album ‘I Dreamt I was an Astronaut’ is out now on Folkwit Records.
Newcastle’s folk maverick Richard Dawson has shared a new music video for The Felon’s Song (our Song of the Day) as part of his recent project with artist Matt Stokes – This Liberty, a cinematic and audio installation inspired by the oldest purpose-built prison in England, Hexham Old Gaol.
Compass Records Group has acquired Folk Roots label Red House Records – The 34-year-old St Paul, MN-based imprint is an iconic brand in Americana and folk music and has been home to a long list of cornerstone artists of the genre, including The Wailin’ Jennys, Eliza Gilkyson, Greg Brown and more.
Dutch folk duo Rosemary and Garlic who we first reviewed back in 2015 have signed to Nettwerk through whom they will release their self-titled debut studio album on 12th January 2018. Listen to their lead single ‘Take this Hand’.
From now and into the New Year there are some great Folk and Americana acts lined up at London’s Kings Place including Talisk, Melrose Quartet, Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Julie Fowlis, Lúnasa and The Albion Christmas Band.
In support of his new release ‘Gathering’, Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band will kick off an extensive tour this winter, including a date at London’s Shepherd Bush Empire for which we have a great Giveaway.
Tom Waits and longtime songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan are to remix his 2004 groundbreaking album ‘Real Gone’ which will have a sound and texture originally envisioned by the artist.
Billy Bragg has shared a new lyric video for his poignant Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted which features on his new mini-album Bridges Not Walls released earlier this month on Cooking Vinyl.
Ahead of a UK run of dates in February 2018, including Celtic Connections and London’s Bush Hall, Young Mary’s Records/Thirty Tigers are to release Colter Wall’s Imaginary Appalachia on January 19th on Vinyl and CD. We can’t recommend it enough.
Our Song of the Day comes via a new video for The Gulley from that inventive folk duo India Electric Co. It opens their new EP, Seven Sisters which is not only their folkiest release to date but also a superb showcase of the duo’s talents which has them at their most inventive. Their best yet.
