Paddy Steer has done a great remix of Vadoinmessico ‘In Spain’ which you can listen to below. Anyone familiar with Paddy’s 2009 release ‘Dragon’s Breath’ will know of his incredible ability in sound creation.
Bert Jansch – Young Man Blues: Live in Glasgow (1962-64) is to be released on vinyl for the first time as 1000 hand-numberd copies on 180g vinyl. Folk Radio UK has a number of copies available!
Join us at Priddy Folk Festival this year as they celebrate their 21st Anniversary in style. Artists include: Spiers & Boden, Spiro, Jackie Oates Band, John McCusker, John Doyle & Mike McGoldrick, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine and lots more!
After Lisa Knapp released her new EP Hunt the Hare at the beginning of May she placed some tracks on soundcloud and invited folks to do a remix of ‘The Pleasant Month of May’. Ged Flood of ‘Mishaped Pearls’ rose to the challenge!
Folk Radio UK favourites Buck and Shanti Curran, better known as Arborea, recently performed a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR which you can watch below. They hope to be in the UK later this year so keep your ears open!
On April 29th 2012 Fink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra collaborated for a stunning one-off performance in Amsterdam’s prestigious Concertgebouw to a sold out crowd.
Here’s a small taster of what we’ve been playing on Folk Radio UK recently. Below you can find a selection of what we’ve recently added along with a recent ‘one day’ playlist.
We have a pair of tickets for tomorrow’s gig at Slaughtered Lamb, London featuring Minneapolis based duo Peter Wolf Crier and New Zealand-raised Tiny Ruins.
This weeks Propermusic podcast features the award-winning duo Tim Edey & Brendan Power. As well as discussing their unique musical partnership and influences you can also hear tracks from their album Wriggle & Writhe and Tim’s recent Best Of compilation.
The BBC is to feature six new one-hour Radio Ballads in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. The series will feature songs from Jez Lowe, Chris Wood, Martin Simpson, Julie Matthews and Steve Tilston.
