Folk Radio UK is sponsoring this year’s Hothouse Festival in Somerset on Saturday 6th April 2013. A one-day folk festival at Halsway Manor with a great line-up and more. Listen to our preview show this week!
Get a taster of Dark Dark Dark’s 10″ EP for Record Store Day featuring three tracks from their ‘Who Needs Who’ recording sessions. Nona’s vocals recall classic cuts from The Shangri-Las.
The award-winning, Wilderness festival, has today expanded its dynamic musical line-up for 2013, welcoming an array of exceptional talent to its carefully curated main stage including: Martha Wainwright and Sam Lee
We have a new Simple Folk Radio show this Sunday featuring LAISH in session who release their Obituaries album this month. The show is presented by Dillon Swinhoe, with Danny Green and Dan Harding of Laish.
Rayys is a new artist to the Folk Radio UK playlist who we only discovered this week. She has just released her new lovely psych-folk single ‘I’m Coming Home’ which is available from bandcamp.
Thirty Pounds of Bone is to release a new album in May titled: I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where. It features Darren Hayman (Hefner), Laurence Collyer (Diamond Family Archive) and more.
The young Brooklyn based indie quartet Swear & Shake put on a fine showcase at this year’s SXSW, their stage presence and confidence spells out a great future! Take a listen.
Watch the latest video from the talented Irish singer Róisín O for her new single Synchronicity which was filmed by the talented Myles O’Reilly. A song about finding that person who in many ways is your oposite.
In Benjamin Gibbard’s latest video for ‘Teardrop Windows’ he’s given the task of getting a ‘bad boy’ image to sell more records. How hard can it be to get arrested? Things don’t work out how they should.
On this weeks Nest Collective Hour, Jamie Doe presents a selection of new releases from all corners of the folk spectrum and he is joined live in the studio by incredible London singer-songwriter Theo Bard.
Introducing Cosmo Sheldrake: inspirational teacher and musical innovator. Drawing on numerous and disparate musical traditions from Mongolia to West Africa, blues to classical and folk to Balkan brass!
Those time-travelling freaks Dirk Van Distanz and Bert Vertigo are back with a one hour Prog Corner show on Folk Radio UK. Tune in Monday for acid drops,spacedust and psychedelic confectionery!
