News

As many of you will already know from our announcement last Friday we have teamed up with Simple Folk Radio whose weekly show will feature on Folk Radio UK. The first show goes out this Saturday coming (March 24th) at 5pm. The highlight of the show will be a live session by Charlie Parr. “I can’t think of a more perfect way to get this show on the road than …

The Lullaby Project: Soothing, bitter or even bawdy, there’s much more to the lullaby than sending a child to sleep. Watch Kris Drever, Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman, Karine Polwart and John Smith performing.

Our ‘Song of the Day’ is by Sun Kil Moon, the moniker of Mark Kozelek who is probably best known for his previous incarnation in Red House Painters.

A Mothers Day Song or two: from two incredible female artists, one from vocally inspiring Julianna Barwick and one from the lovely Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) who is also a mother.

Our song of the day is Bill Callahan’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘So Long, Marianne’. In other news, Bill Callahan is to release a new 7″ cover of the late Mickey Newbury’s “Heaven Help The Child”.

Music for MRI is a project being run by the artist Robert Manning who has Multiple Sclerosis. Marissa Nadler is the latest artist to cover his song ‘Washington Parks’ to help raise money and awareness for MS.

Watch the latest video for Seamus Fogarty’s ‘The Waterside’ and get his latest tour dates including his support of a James Yorkston’s 10’th Anniversary show celebration of ‘Moving Up Country’.

Folk Radio UK joins forces with Simple Folk Radio: a welcome addtion to our broadcast that will include live sessions and more! Live Sessions include Charlie Parr, Emma Gatrill, Great Lake Swimmers, Rozi Plain and David Thomas Broughton

Watch Welsh surf-pop band Y Niwl new video for Undegpedwar which is an absolute classic, directed by the very talented Ryan Owen.

Craig Finn is your literate American all-rounder, and his work with The Hold Steady has been the perfect soundtrack to good times for so many, so it seems only right that he now has his own beer!

Josh Tillman unveils his new video under his moniker of Father John Misty. Nancy From Now On features Emma Garr who takes on the role of the mischevious dominatrix…

Dave Pilla’s self-titled EP features some great tracks that show off the spectrum of his talent, I’m sure we will be hearing more from him duing 2012.