For the latest Before the Gold Rush session we have two great songs from Amy Gillespie, a London based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will release their debut album for Rough Trade, ‘Overnight,’ on October 14th. Listen to the album’s lilting first single, “The Waning Crescent”.
To mark their first decade as a duo, Gilmore & Roberts announce a 10th Anniversary Tour and their first live album. Recorded this year on their spring tour it features their most requested songs from their albums to date.
London-based alt-folk troupe Patch & The Giant get into festival mode and head to London’s Ecclestone Square to record a cover of Bob Dylan’s Oh, Sister – Our Song of the Day. Don’t miss their tour dates which include Cambridge Folk Festival.
Watch the new video from Ryley Walker for The Roundabout, it was filmed and edited by Joe Martinez Jr. and is taken from his forthcoming album ‘Golden Sings That Have Been Sung’.
The wonderfully talented Rachel Newton provides our Song of the Day via her new video for Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad – supported by a hugely talented band as well. It’s so good we gave you a double helping!
Sidmouth FolkWeek kicks off this week. Check out some of the highlights, listen to our Spotify playlist and have a read through past festival memories from the likes of Kathryn Tickell, Andy Cutting and more.
Fegan’s passion and knowledge of Irish traditional music played by members of the Irish Travelling community is remarkable. This is a captivating documentary, through interviews and supported archive footage he has brought to life the stuff of legend.
Following on from the razor sharp polemics of ‘The City Nowadays’, L.A. Salami releases his new Double-A side single, ‘I Wear This Because Life Is War’ / ‘Day To Day’. Listen now.
Calais Field Music is a project I recently came across which was set up by Isolda Heavey to help the refugees in the ‘Jungle’ camp at Calais. Five albums have been released to date featuring field recordings of different musicians from the camp. Solidarity not charity.
This week Folk Radio UK heads to WOMAD 2016 – 90 Artists from 50 Countries will be performing at this year’s festival so we are going to be thoroughly spoilt for choice, not just with the music but also the art, dance, discussion, activity, food and drink from fifty nations spanning six continents.
Yorkston Thorne Khan head out on a tour of Ireland in August with support from Seamus Fogarty and they also play this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Watch their recent performance of Sufi Song at the Tolbooth in Stirling.
