An Tobar will be working with one of Scotland’s foremost musicians, Aidan O’Rourke (Lau, KAN, Blazin’ Fiddles), who will be composing a new piece called TAT-1 for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Includes video interview.
The Forgotten Works have a unique sound that has a timeless quality and a familiarity, a feeling of belonging to the land, reminiscent of those early explorations into psych-folk.
In association with Pull up the Roots we are offering our readers a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Emily Smith & Jen Ord at the Slaughtered Lamb, London on May 14, 2012.
We recently offered a giveaway of five deluxe CDs of The Chieftains new album ‘Voice of Ages’, find out who those winners are. We also have a free track from The Chieftains album as well as tour dates!
This weeks Propermusic Podcast is the first of a two-part Topic Records special, David Suff and Tony Engle join Trevor Dann to discuss the folk label’s 70+ year history and some of its classic releases.
The good folk at the English Folk Dance and Song Society are putting on a creative family folk arts festival to celebrate spring traditions at Cecil Sharp House in Camden on Saturday 12 May.
Tucker Zimmerman makes a rare London appearance this Friday and will be also be performing at Bristol Folk Festival this Sunday with Wizz Jones, Ben Mandelson, Ian A. Anderson, Nancy Wallace and Jason Steel.
Newcastle University has produced some of the leading artists in the UK folk scene. Now, their Folk and Traditional Music degree is celebrating its 10th birthday with a concert at The Sage Gateshead.
The first step in the journey of making one of the most important archives in modern music history available to the public begins this week – the first details of John Peel’s record collection will be published online for the first time ever.
