Next month sees Stratford Arts House, in partnership with Riverside Campsite, celebrate their first Stratford Folk Festival which will be headlined by Folk legends Show of Hands and Cara Dillon.
Bill MacKay is a highly-regarded guitarist-composer-improviser based in Chicago, watch his latest video Powder Mill Park from his latest album Esker which is out now on Drag City Records.
Our Song of the Day is a premiere from Indiana-born-and-bred David Corley with ‘Down with the Universe’ from his new album Zero Moon spawned by a surreal experience of dying, on stage, and coming out of that, somehow alive but not unscathed. He’s on tour now.
As advance tickets are already selling fast for many of Sidmouth Folkweek’s Pre-Festival specials we take a look at some of the other top names performing at the Ham and Bulverton roots dance party nights.
27-time Grammy Award winner Alison Krauss recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, delivering a stellar live version of the title track of her brand new album, ‘Windy City’, which is out now on Decca/Capitol.
Watch the latest video from Alex Rex (Alex Neilson / Trembling Bells) for Lucy, a song taken from his debut solo album Vermillion which is out now on Tin Angel Records.
With their self-titled album now released into the big wide world, The Harmed Brothers reveal their new video for ‘In the wind’ which was filmed in newly opened Morehouse Barbers, in the North Portland neighbourhood of St. Johns.
The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, a new project featuring Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. It draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock.
Taken from their latest album ‘Fences’ watch Bombadil in a live and intimate session performing ‘Perfect’ at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, North Carolina. Fences is out now on Ramseur Records.
With its beautiful Clyde coast setting, a community at its heart, the very best Scottish music and the added attraction of the finest Scottish food, drink and art; Argyll Gathering 2017 is set to become one of Scotland’s most memorable annual festivals.
Watch Carrie & Lowell Live, an audio and visual document of Sufjan Steven’s November 9, 2015, performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina.
Watch the latest video from MADAM (aka Sukie Smith). Three Sixes took the best part of a year to complete, was Directed by Richard Morel and was shot in part on a spaceship he built in his house.
