Paul Simon’s talented son, Harper Simon has released a new video for his single ‘Bonnie Brae’ taken from his new album ‘Division Street‘ produced by Tom Rothrock (Elliott Smith, Beck). Watch it now.
The unique sounding Polly and the Billets Doux played a fantastic session for Folk Radio UK recently which opens to a new sweet and soulful version of ‘To Be A Fighter‘ which is enough to make anyone’s Friday!
The 13th episode of ‘Mix Tape Radio On Folk Radio UK’ is going to have a bit of a ‘valentines’ theme feat: Scott Rudd, The Avett Brothers, Tom Waits, Patrick Porter, Benjamin Shaw, Cat Power and many more
Recording ‘What The Brothers Sang’ was something important for Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Having both been touched by the music of The Everly Brothers at a young age. Watch the short film.
Sheffield folk collective ‘Bright Phoebus’ which includes Martin Simpson, Jon Boden, Roy Bailey, Sam Sweeney, Fay Hield, James Fagan and Nancy Kerr will pay tribute to Tom Waits at Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year.
Spiers and Boden have come up with an inventive new tour that will involve fans across the UK. Backyard Songs is their new touring project which takes place over 30 dates in April and May 2013. Find out more…
We recently reviewed David Philips’ stunning new album ‘December Wine (4 track tapes)’ which we were so taken by that we asked David to record an acoustic session for us. Keep an eye out for his UK dates.
Born somewhere between Finland and Norway and now located in Berlin Hanna & Kerttu adopted their finnish name from the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale which means Hanna & Gretel.
Woodkid has release a new video and single for ‘I Love You’. The video was directed Yoann Lemoine who also directed ‘Run Boy Run’, it is as visually stunning as those previosuly released.
On this week’s Simple Folk Radio our monthly resident host Daniel Green returns with a live session from avant jazz composer, poet and skewed pop songwriter Alabaster DePlume, plus studio guest Rory Dickenson.
Get your first taster of Jackie Oates new album ‘Lullabies’, an album featuring some of her favourite lullabies and sleep songs. Watch the video for ‘Dream Angus’.
