Listen to Martin Simpson and Dom Flemons performing John Hardy from their forthcoming new album ‘Ever Popular Favourites’ which features twelve scintillating, exuberant and emotional performances recorded during the duo’s sell-out Autumn 2015 tour.
Listen in full to ‘The Divers Curse’ the new album from Irish/Canadian BD Harrington. Joining him is veteran electronic producer Kel McKeown (Kelpe) on drums, Adam Richens (Bethia Beadman) on guitar and Tom Goldsmith (Circulus, Part Chimp) on bass.
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry have today shared a new video for The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore. The track features on their new album Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad due for release on Sept 23rd 2016.
Lisa Hannigan has shared her new video for Fall, a song she co-wrote with Joe Henry which features on her forthcoming album At Swim, which will be released on August 19th via Play It Again Sam recordings.
Mary Chapin Carpenter is about to embark on her UK tour following the release of ‘The Things That We Are Made Of’, a Featured Album of the Month on FRUK. Watch a series of special videos in which she talks in depth about her new album.
Listen to ‘Emboniga’ by Mendrugo, a trio led by the infamous Hermanos Herrero – Víctor & José Luis – along with Josephine Foster. A song about the rural tradition of muck splattering….a goat deterrent used in olive groves.
Heidi Talbot’s fifth solo LP plays to the tune of quiet skips and giant leaps. It crosses the ages, jumps into the unknown, traverses oceans and musical styles – from folk, through Americana, to classic pop, and back again.
Our Song of the Day is Cold Old Fire by Dublin-based band Lynched. Watch the powerfully moving Director’s Cut video (by Luke McManus) which opens to the traditional funeral lament Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire.
It’s back and there’s still time to enter! The Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (25-28 August) is celebrating the UK folk scene with its very own talent contest, Purbeck Rising.
Show of Hands have today released single and video ‘The Gamekeeper’ to mark the centenary of the first day of WW1’s Battle of the Somme. They are also performing in a special concert at Exeter Cathedral tonight.
Fledg’ling Records announce new Anne Briggs EP. Rare, simple, unadorned and intimate performances, aching with poignancy, make their first appearance on record, fifty years after recording and capture Anne Briggs singing at just the right time.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have unveiled their new video for Wake Up The Sun which was shot on Location in Chimishli and Chisinau – Moldova With the Chimishli Village Theatre group.
