Houndmouth who hail from the lowland plains and farmlands of Indiana and Kentucky release their debut album ‘From The Hills Below The City’ this week. Listen to it in full.
Topic Records have been hard at work managing the next phased roll-out of digital releases as part of The Great Big Digital Archive Project. June Tabor and Martin Simpson are next to feature!
Little Bear are a four piece band that hail from Derry, Northern Ireland. Although formed just over a year ago the band have been riding a bit of a crest right now which looks set to continue through 2013.
American folk music artist and musician Tim Eriksen has announced some UK and European dates this this summer which includes shows with Eliza Carthy. Watch a video of them performing together.
Irish singer Lorcán Mac Mathúna has long been a favourite of Folk Radio UK so it’s a great pleasure to present this special Folk Radio UK Session which also features fiddler Daire Bracken.
Pete Flood of Bellowhead has offered up an ingenious reworking of Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s title track from their new album Fire & Fortune. Listen here.
The Paul McKenna Band’s new album ‘Elements’ hits the streets on June 1st and as you can hear from the taster Scotland’s folk and traditional music is in very good hands.
Listen to the first song from Sara Lowes new EP which bubbles with everything from the primordial soup of Technicolor pop, to acoustic folk, through jazz, and kaleidoscopic prog
Imagine listening to a piece of music made for the road you’re on as you drive on it. This is what inspired Dublin based artist Fiona Hallinan in her latest project Heterodyne,
There are a number of musicians whose work in Irish music I greatly admire but there are three in particular that spring to the forefront of my mind: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Lorcán Mac Mathúna and Gerry Diver…this is why.
Watch Alessi’s Ark’s latest stop motion video for ‘Tin Smithing’. She is about to embark on a US tour with Sam Amidon and returns to the UK for some summer festivals!
