Emily Smith celebrates her 10th anniversary as a folksinger with the release of retrospective album ‘Ten Years’ which includes new recordings of old favourites.
Find out about Breabach’s antipodean adventures and the Boomerang Project with Maori and Aboriginal musicians. Plus ‘Bha Mise Raoir an Airigh’ is our Song of the Day.
Folk on the Quay is a free folk music festival that takes place in picturesque Poole, Dorset on 28/29th June featuring four outdoor music stages, two ceilidh dances and a great line-up!
Martin Harley has been making a big impression in the US of late. He returns to his UK home shores in June with a number of shows planned. Watch his recent Nashville session.
To mark his 40th anniversary as a musician Dougie MacLean is to release a new album in collaboration with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Till Tomorrow is released on 23rd June 2014.
Shirley Collins, will be hosting a special evening at Café Oto in June to help raise funds for the making of the non-fiction feature film ‘As I Walked Out One May Morning: The Ballad of Shirley Collins.’
UK based record label Charly celebrate their 40th anniversary this year and have a number of great reissues up their sleeve including Townes Van Zandt’s first two albums.
Our Song of the Day is from Police Dog Hogan with their new single and video Fraserburgh Train to be released on on June 6 to mark the forthcoming 70th anniversary of D-Day.
A folk festival in Southern Spain, sounds idyllic: Sun, sand, sea and folk music…all guaranteed. Costa Del Folk was a great success and they’ve released this short film to share the experience.
Our Song of the Day is from Rachel Newton’s new album Changeling. Queen of Elfan’s Nourice tells the story of a woman taken from her son to Elfland to nurse fairy babies.
We first introduced Dorset raised Roo Panes back in 2012, it’s a pleasure to have him back with his new single and video for ‘Tiger Striped Sky’ our Song of the Day .
