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.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
We head back to the Embankment, Tallaght, Co.Dublin 1976 for today’s Song of the Day, a great horse-racing classic – ‘Plains of Kildare’. It’s performed by Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.
Watch the new video from Marina Florance for Two People, her new single. Simple in concept, with still-photos of people of all ages dancing, the video provides a welcome dose of nostalgia and draws you in with it’s universally appealing theme.
