English Folk Expo kicks off later this month to a sold out event showcasing some of the best music on offer from the English folk music scene. Run alongside Homegrown, The Met’s annual festival of the finest English folk music it promises to be another great year.
We a great video premiere today from Boston-based Aerialists for their first musical release ‘Deep Toque’. The band features members from Canada, the US, and Scotland.
We have an exclusive video premiere, also our Song of the Day, from the young Canadian roots musician Kaia Kater. Watch the video for “When Sorrows Encompass Me Round”, which takes a line from an old fiddle tune song and reworks it into the story of a runaway slave.
Ed Askew’s 1968 release ‘Ask the Unicorn’ is to be re-issued (and remastered) on white vinly…we decided to celebrate with a Song of the Day from that release: Fancy That.
Watch the video premiere for Kyle Carey’s ‘Let Them Be All Reprise’, a new but timeless sounding song for which director Adrian Garber has put together an outstanding video.
In association with Caught by the River we have a special giveaway to their upcoming Caught by the River Social Club in London – featuring Darren Hayman, Richard Skelton, July Skies and more.
Our Song of the Day comes via a very special live video session from traditional American roots masters Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller. Recorded at The Deep End Ranch, about an hour North of Los Angeles in the Santa Clara River Valley.
Orison for a Curlew is a new book by Horatio Clare telling of his journey across Europe in search of the Slender-billed curlew, ‘Numenius tenuirostris’, ‘the slim beak of the new moon’, one of the world’s rarest birds.
Irish band The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock announce the debut performance of ‘Lockout’ in Dublin. Joining them at the Hangar will be 18 musicians along with the legendary Dónal Lunny. Watch their new video performance of Lockout Movement 1.
We have the great pleasure of bringing you an exclusive first listen of the new album from Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures. Listen to ‘My Ass’ in full before its release this Friday 2nd October.
We have an exclusive track premiere from Brooklyn based Americana folk-blues band, Pete Lanctot and the Stray Dogs who have just headlined the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival. Walk Right is the final track from their forthcoming new album “No Sign of Love or Farewell,” out October 18th.
