Purbeck Valley Folk Festival have unveiled the first names for 2017 including Badly Drawn Boy, Lady Maisery, Martha Tilston, Blue Rose Code, This is the Kit, Curtis Eller’s American Circus & many more.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Sarah McQuaid is hard at work writing songs for her new album, to be produced by none other than folk icon Michael Chapman who she met when they both performed at Village Pump Festival in 2014.
Listen to The Food of Love Project, dedicated to Shakespeare’s legacy and featuring the likes of Alasdair Roberts, Kirsty Law, Rob St John, Dead Rat Orchestra, Stornoway, Thomas Truax, David Thomas Broughton and more.
Listen in full to Michael Chapman’s new record 50, titled to commemorate fifty years of touring, is his first “American record” and the first in years recorded with a full band under the watchful ear of producer Steve Gunn. It his undeniable late-career masterpiece.
Nadia Reid has revealed her new video for The Arrow and The Aim, taken from her forthcoming album Preservation. Shot in Mt Somers, just outside of Christchurch in New Zealand.
Listen to a remix by Stick in the Wheel’s Ian Carter – ‘Aleppo In The Sun As It Was’ features Eliza Carthy and MC Dizraeli. The track featured on Eliza Carthy’s recent limited edition tour CD EP.
Lisa Knapp announces her third studio album ‘Til April is Dead – A Garland of May Songs.’ Special guests include ground-breaking folk singer, Mary Hampton, David Tibet and Graham Coxon – due for release by Ear to the Ground Records on 28th April 2017.
With an intense acoustic style and pared-down arrangements reminiscent of Nick Drake, our Song of the Day comes from french artist Raoul Vignal with Hazy Days, the first single from his forthcoming album The Silver Veil.
Following the release of their debut album ‘Across The Water’ back in December, Alex Cumming and Nicola Beazley are to head out on tour. So don’t miss their tales of drama on the high seas, jealous lovers, and sheep shearing, long lost traditional tunes, and a masterclass in musicianship.
Listen to the new single ‘I Won’t Live Until I Die’ from Morgan Cameron Ross, a song that sees him straying away from the world of pop and sounding all the better for it.
West Virginian poet Randi Ward publishes Whipstitches…about how people, words, images, memory, and other things become bound up in one another— even as they are simultaneously becoming something else.
Watch the album trailer for Toby Hay’s forthcoming debut album ‘The Gathering’ and read Robert Macfarlane’s inspiring words…”The tracks of this album – quick-fingered, deep-felt – open landscapes in the mind’s eye…”
