Kings Place announces Folk & Americana line-up for May/June 2017 including Lankum, Calan, Quercus, Anna & Elizabeth + Eli West, Daphne’s Flight, Martha Tilston, Kris Drever, Altan, Sam Lee and more.
Samantha Crain’s fifth album ‘You Had Me At Goodbye’ is out now on Full Time Hobby. Watch her latest video for Oh Dear Louis, recorded during a live performance rehearsal.
Sam Amidon announces new album ‘The Following Mountain.’ It represents a new approach for Amidon, who shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources.
On his latest album ‘Where The River Meets The Road,’ Tim O’Brien collaborates with Chris Stapleton, Kathy Mattea, Stuart Duncan, and Noam Pikelny. Don’t miss his UK Tour in May with support from Kaia Kater on select dates.
Watch the new video for “Braced Against The Cold” from Glasgow four-piece, State Broadcasters. The track is taken from ‘A Different Past,’ their long-awaited third album. Don’t miss their two album launch shows, the first being today at The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh.
Acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter John Smith has announced the release of his new album Headlong. It was produced by Sam Lakeman and features Cara Dillon on backing vocals. Listen to his new song Far Too Good.
Nadine Khouri is to release a new 4-Track Digital Single ‘I Ran Thru The Dark (To The Beat of My Heart)’ on 31 March 2017. We have a pair of tickets for her headline London show at St. Pancras Old Church along with and a signed vinyl copy of her debut album The Salted Air to giveaway.
Fionn Regan has unveiled a new track, Cormorant Bird, from his forthcoming album, The Meetings of the Waters. He has also announced an app for the iPhone that offers an accompaniment to the album and all things Fionn Regan.
Listen to the new Tamikrest song ‘Ehad Wad Nadorhan’ from their latest album Kidal released on Glitterbeat Records this month. Kidal is a town surrounded by Malian desert stretches in every direction, it’s also the town in which Tamikrest first came together.
For the first time, Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Nathan Salsburg are to release a collaborative EP for Record Store Day via Paradise of Bachelors from which we take our Song of the Day: Wallins Creek Girls.
Our Song of the Day comes from Seafoam Green, the brainchild of Dublin-born, Liverpool-based troubadour Dave O’Grady. Watch Dave, along with Martin Byrne performing Lowly Lou, from his forthcoming debut album Topanga Mansion.
For those that missed Sam Sweeney’s Fiddle: Made in the Great War in 2014, Sam has announced a final series of dates in June 2017. It’s a fascinating and entertaining multi-media performance telling the incredible story of the fiddle which took nearly 100 years to complete.
