Watch ‘Woodend, Northamptonshire,’ the latest video from English songwriter and former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman’s forthcoming album Thankful Villages Volume 2, which is due out on Rivertones on 26 May.
Indigo Girls announce they will be touring the UK this July including dates in Manchester, Bristol, and London as well as Cambridge Folk Festival on the 28th of July. Watch them discussing activism and performing with Joan Baez.
Watch Tamara Lindeman with her full band in concert from 2015 performing songs from the exceptional Loyalty “…an album that should earn The Weather Station a place at the top table of Canadian songwriters.”
Singer-songwriter-activist Ani DiFranco has announced the release of her twentieth studio album Binary which is set for release on June 9th. Watch her performing the title track live in session.
Our Song of the Day is ‘John’, the new single from Tara Clerkin’s forthcoming debut album Hello. Her music combines elements of psychedelia, country and folk songwriting with a lo-fi palette of found sounds and field recordings.
Having first played together in Tel Aviv in 2013, English folk-blues legend Michael Chapman and Israeli singer-songwriter Ehud Banai join forces once again for a series of UK Concert Dates.
This month Ewan McLennan will go back out to play his first UK solo tour of this year. After spending the last few months on collaborative projects, Ewan will be touring across England and Scotland in the coming months.
Taken from Alex Rex’s (Alex Neilson, Trembling Bells) forthcoming album Vermillion, “Song For Dora” is a skewed voodoo blues that combines Captain Beefheart style hoedown with Gregorian chant. Watch the new video which features traditional Tar Barrel Burning.
We have the pleasure in premiering the video for HAV’s (a Danish word for sea) new single – the traditional ‘Loch Tay Boat Song.’ It reimagines a conversation between two lovers whose time together is slipping away.
Nonesuch announces new Kronos Quartet album entitled Folk Songs on which they join forces with four labelmates—Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant.
The BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners included Kris Drever, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton, The Furrow Collective, Daoiri Farrell, Rachel Newton, Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente and more.
