Gareth Thompson reflects on Mike Gangloff’s well-attended gig at the Golden Lion…Gangloff ends by saying, “A set of creaky old fiddle tunes ain’t the easiest gig to sell,” but the success of his latest touring venture would rather suggest it is.
Ahead of his UK tour in May 2023 with C Joynes, we catch up with Mike Gangloff, a founding member of Pelt and The Black Twig Pickers, to chat about taking Appalachian fiddle music into new spectrums, Shape Note singing, Jack Rose, Pelt and more.
If you love the minimalist folk music of Cath and Phil Tyler, Shirley Collins, Lankum and Anna & Elizabeth then folk duo House and Land may well be right up your street. They are on tour in Europe in October 2017. Watch them perform The Day is Past and Gone, our Song of the Day.
Watch the new video from Steve Gunn and the Black Twig Pickers for Trailways Ramble, a glorious concoction of old time music, drone with an eastern undertone that reels you in. Matt Peyton’s video collage forms the perfect companion to the track as you leave the main roads and head to the country.
A new mix from FRUK: Lost in Transmission ii – feat: The Unthanks, Piers Faccini, Sir Richard Bishop, Karen Dalton, Sonny & the Sunsets, Iron & Wine and many more.
Seasonal Hire is the exciting new collaborative album between the boundary pushing Steve Gunn and The Black Twig Pickers. Take a listen to ‘Trailways Ramble’
Nansemond is Nathan Bowles boldest sonic outing yet, sounding fresh whilst still alluding to the sounds of the past. An artist crafting a story, part myth, part memoir.
Folk Radio UK gives a retrospective view of 2013 with the Best Albums of the Year! In part one: Carthy, Hardy, Farrell and Young; Fionn Regan; Serafina Steer and more!
The Black Twig Pickers are back with a new album Rough Carpenters. All those small musical nuances go to make up the unique whole…As Gangloff explains, “It’s not the melody, it’s the moss.”
