English songwriter and former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman reveals new video for “Chantry, Somerset” from his forthcoming new album Thankful Villages Vol II, due out on 26 May via Rivertones.
Described as a new breed of country, pulling inspiration from dreamscapes and in-depth stories from the gorgeous and gritty corners of Americana, watch Jonathan Terrell’s latest video. He has just announced a run of UK festival dates in July 2017.
Days Are Done are Emmy Kay and Adam Lewis. Watch their new video for ‘You’, their latest single which was written, so they tell us, on a sunny day in Kingston-upon-Thames where the duo are now based.
Martin Simpson is to release his eagerly awaited new solo album entitled Trails and Tribulations on September 1st, via Topic Records. The album features a host of special guests plus we have an exclusive first listen to his cover of Jackson C. Frank’s ‘Blues Run The Game’.
Next month sees Stratford Arts House, in partnership with Riverside Campsite, celebrate their first Stratford Folk Festival which will be headlined by Folk legends Show of Hands and Cara Dillon.
Bill MacKay is a highly-regarded guitarist-composer-improviser based in Chicago, watch his latest video Powder Mill Park from his latest album Esker which is out now on Drag City Records.
Our Song of the Day is a premiere from Indiana-born-and-bred David Corley with ‘Down with the Universe’ from his new album Zero Moon spawned by a surreal experience of dying, on stage, and coming out of that, somehow alive but not unscathed. He’s on tour now.
As advance tickets are already selling fast for many of Sidmouth Folkweek’s Pre-Festival specials we take a look at some of the other top names performing at the Ham and Bulverton roots dance party nights.
27-time Grammy Award winner Alison Krauss recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, delivering a stellar live version of the title track of her brand new album, ‘Windy City’, which is out now on Decca/Capitol.
Watch the latest video from Alex Rex (Alex Neilson / Trembling Bells) for Lucy, a song taken from his debut solo album Vermillion which is out now on Tin Angel Records.
With their self-titled album now released into the big wide world, The Harmed Brothers reveal their new video for ‘In the wind’ which was filmed in newly opened Morehouse Barbers, in the North Portland neighbourhood of St. Johns.
The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, a new project featuring Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. It draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock.
