News

The much loved Kilkenny Roots Festival Celebrates its 20th Year with Stellar Line-up Including The Handsome Family, Marah, Joan Shelley and More.

Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe are touring their new album, The Janus Game, this Spring. As mentioned in our featured review “These two well-travelled veterans of the folk music scene have still got a great deal to say and can still say it with style.”

Listen to the first single from Stick in the Wheel’s collaborative album, ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings’ – Nicola Kearey singing Georgie…plus we have a bonus playlist from the band of contemporary and traditional folk music.

Cuban pianist, composer and producer Roberto Fonseca, one of the most inventive and creative Latin Jazz musicians of this new generation, announces UK tour following the release of his latest album ABUC.

This March sees the release of Neil McSweeney’s fourth album, A Coat Worth Wearing. Featuring a line-up of faces well-known to the folk world, the release also marks a development in his sound and approach. Watch him performing ‘Land of Cockaigne’ live.

Peter Broderick teams up with musical partner David Allred for new album Find the Ways and share new music video in which they sing unaccompanied but supported by some familiar sign carriers including BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs.

Canadian Juno award-winning songwriter Amelia Curran has announced the release of her new album Watershed in the UK on April 21st through Six Shooter Records. She recently revealed a stop-motion video for her first single Gravity.

Listen in full to ‘Standing at the Precipice,’ the debut album from Folk and Americana duo Almond&Olive – Natalie Alms and Ollie Davidson.

Barbara Dickson announces UK-wide concert tour from Yeovil to Perth and, in support of the tour, releases ‘Five Songs’ EP, a cross section of her “favourites of now” including the traditional, an Incredible String Band cover and an original.

Our Song of the Day is ‘I Remember You,’ the first single to be taken from singer-songwriter Jason McNiff’s forthcoming double CD retrospective anthology. Lilting and upbeat, the song showcases McNiff’s simple-yet-powerful acoustic guitar work partnered with an enticing folk-pop melody that makes it an instant classic.

Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum shares ‘Real Death,’ a heartbreaking song from his forthcoming album A Crow Looked at Me which was written following the loss of Geneviève Castrée, his wife and mother of their child.

Fairport Convention has announced names for next year’s 37th Cropredy Convention including Petula Clark, Dougie MacLean, Richard Thompson, Show of Hands, Gigspanner Big Band, Feast of Fiddles as well as a triple bill of performances from ‘early years’ former members of Fairport to celebrate their Golden Anniversary.