Johnny continues his review of Towersey Festival taking in performances from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Lau, interviews with Blair Dunlop, Urban Folk Quartet and more. Plus a look at the future…
Listen to a live set from Blair Dunlop which he performed earlier this year at Australia’s Port Fairy Folk Festival. The set includes his own material and a great Nic Jones cover.
With two superb solo albums and one fronting the Albion Band recorded in a little over two years, Blair Dunlop has been very busy. We grabbed a few minutes for an exclusive catch up.
Our Song of the Day is from a special session that Blair Dunlop recently performed for Bob Harris’ ‘Under The Apple Tree Sessions’. It’s a cover of Jackson Browne’s ‘These Days’.
With his second album, House Of Jacks, Blair Dunlop builds on the considerable promise of his debut and subsequent Horizon Folk Award, creating a bold and big new sound in the process.
Our Song of the Day is the title track from the forthcoming album House of Jacks, the second album by the award-winning Blair Dunlop who is on tour this month.
Get a taster of Blair Dunlop’s forthcoming new album ‘House of Jacks’ with his new video trailer. Out on 26th May prior to which he’ll be hitting the road to tour the album.
Blair Dunlop has today announced an end to ongoing work of the current line up of The Albion Band to allow him and band members to focus on their own individual projects.
Two members of the new re-vitalised Albion Band have been nominated in the 2013 BBC Folk Awards and the band announce a special guest for their Exeter gig: Phil Beer of Show of Hands fame.
Building on a summer of successful festival appearances, The Albion Band is taking what could be called a victory lap with a second UK tour this November.
