Watch the brand new video from Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band featuring Teddy Thompson. The band find themselves in a remote village hall with a miserable audience. But things soon brighten up as the band take to the dancefloor. Also new Tour Dates announced!
With it being St. David’s Day today this new video for ‘West Coast Sun’ from Danielle Lewis is perfectly timed, a song that recalls her memories of growing up on the Welsh coast to temporarily living on the East Coast of Australia.
KT Tunstall, Newton Faulkner, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, are set to headline the 53rd Towersey Festival (25-28 August 2017, Thame, Oxfordshire). They’re joined by Show Of Hands, Lindisfarne, The Blockheads and Foy Vance, amongst others.
Listen to Da Ram, the lead single from Liverpool-based trio I SEE RIVERS new EP. Hailing from the Northern, Southern and Western parts of Norway you’ll love these memorable melodies and untraditional harmonies.
Dublin via Cleatormoor West Cumbria, the newly renamed Cumbrian based folk rock band, The Black Guards, are to release their debut single, Drawn In, on 17 March 2017 which we have the pleasure in premiering today.
The Doc Rowe Archive and Collection has announced an exhibition of artworks inspired by the archive. Two fine artists and a photographer will also create new, original artworks which explore the meaning and content of the archive.
Soundpost Singing Weekend: Old Adam is no ordinary weekend, it’s a community of people of all ages and abilities who come together to explore the music up close and personal with some of the top folk musicians in the country: Fay Hield, Karine Polwart, Nancy Kerr, Ben Nicholls and more.
Listen to Eliza Carthy performing The Sea, recorded at dusk in her garden. As featured on the forthcoming Stick in the Wheel compilation album ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings.’
Listen to Death for the Decent, the first of three songs to be released for Bristol-based Campbell Sibthorpe’s forthcoming EP Sky Lily. Inspired by real-life tragedy, it reflects in sheer sadness for the afflicted.
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin announce ‘Out of the Ordinary Tour’, venues will include churches, caverns, Iron Age roundhouses, ancient hostelries, steam museums and the labyrinthine Liverpool tunnels. Sounds fantastic!
Watch ‘Money,’ the new single from Brighton-based The Delta Bell. Inspired by the times we live in, it’s about the fleeting nature of money, the 99 and the 1%, and the boredom and frustration of being skint.
Our Song of the Day comes from Gaelic singer Kim Carnie. Watch her performing Brendan Graham’s heartbreaking lament Crucán na bPáiste (The Burial Place of the Children) at the final of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of 2017.
