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.
Doc Watson has died at age 89. Re-knowned for his fine examples of the Anglo-American folk tradtion and unique flat picking style he wanted to be remembered more as a decent human being than a flashy guitar player.
The leftfield folk trio of Martin Purdy, Andy Smith and Simon Jones better known as Harp and a Monkey continue to dig those treasures up, watch their latest video: a Bernard Wrigley classic – Molecatcher
Highly acclaimed acoutic guitarist and songwriter Jon Fletcher is currently working on his second album from which he has unveiled a few rough mixes which you can listen to below.
