On this weeks Nest Collective Hour there is a very special live performance from the legendary Tom Paley: founding member of The New Lost City Ramblers, a man who has inspired many including Bob Dylan and Ry Cooder!
The Memory Band now in their tenth year release their fourth studio album On The Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs) next month & will celebrating with a live show at the Vortex in Dalston on 7th May.
Introducing The James Riley Band, their debut EP ‘Lay Me Down’ is out this month, you only need to watch the video for the title track to appreciate that they are going places! A name for 2013!
Get your first listen to The Dunwells new single ‘Follow the Road’ which launches in the UK this week on 11th April at The Islington, London. There is a UK tour in May as well as a Cropredy festival appearance.
To celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday 20th April Topic Records are releasing a 50th anniversary limited edition 7″ vinyl single of DAVY GRAHAM’s historic and extraordinarily influential 3/4 AD
Reveal Records are delighted to welcome Eddi Reader to the label. A series of album re-issues will be made available in July, prior to the release of a new studio album and UK Tour in November!
In case you missed it here is the Hothouse Festival preview show we recently aired. Come and join us at this great one day festival on Saturday 6th April 2013 at Halsway Manor in Somerset near Taunton.
This weeks Nest Collective Hour will have a bird theme. It is presented by Sam Lee and features a live session from You Are Wolf, she will be performing songs from her bird project.
A new programme comes to Folk Radio UK this coming Friday featuring Shirley Collins which looks at the bleak but true tale of ‘The Poor Murdered Woman’ and unearths new information about her fate.
Chris Wood, Jim Moray and Jackie Oates will be among the major names from English folk music performing at English Folk Expo – to be held the weekend before the world music industry conference Womex 2013.
Prog Corner is back on Monday at 1:00pm. In the latest edition Bert Vertigo is found searching the galaxies for his co-pilot Dirk van Distanz! Music from The Jimi Hendrix Experience and more!
Folk Radio UK is delighted to have been chosen as the partner for the launch of the new Chris Wood album, None The Wiser. Chris will be making a track a week available to listen to via our website.
