‘Coming Home’ is Cara Dillon’s bravest and most personal record to date. Featuring entirely original material, including spoken poetry, it’s a serene, ethereal, and lyrical landscape in which to spend time.
Taken from her new album ‘Coming Home’, watch Cara Dillon’s new video for her latest single ‘Giving’, inspired by her 92-year-old mother; within it lies a distilled reflection of Irish hospitality and generosity.
Irish folk singer Cara Dillon announces Coming Home, her first album of entirely original material on which the lines between spoken word and song are blurred. Watch the stunning video for Clear the Path, her lead single.
Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson and Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz announce collaborative album ‘Nothing But Green Willow’ and share lead single ‘Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies’ ft. Cara Dillon.
Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman announce “Live at Cooper Hall” album, featuring a selection of 16 songs (including two previously unreleased) recorded at the two concerts held at Cooper Hall in Somerset during lockdown. Cara is also on tour from September.
Don’t miss Cara Dillon in concert tonight. Live at Cooper Hall 2 will be streamed on Youtube and Facebook this evening at 8:00 pm including Folk Radio UK’s Facebook Page.
We catch up with Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman to chat about life and their first online streamed concert, ‘Live at Cooper Hall’ on Thursday 13th August.
Cara Dillon and her band took advantage of the presence of a beautiful Romany Caravan at this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival and in they popped for a rendition of The Raggle Taggle Gypsy.
To celebrate her third year of touring her Christmas Show “Upon a Winter’s Night”, Cara Dillon has recorded her own sublime version of Joni Mitchell’s Christmas folk song ‘River’, featuring the exquisite John Smith on guitar.
Cara Dillon will be touring her Christmas show “Upon a Winter’s Night” for the third year running this December. The overwhelming success of previous tours has cemented this magical and memorable festive experience as a firm tradition.
Wanderer is Cara Dillon’s most satisfying album since her astonishing self-titled debut in 2001. “…something deeper is going on with Wanderer and you get the feeling this is an album that had to be recorded, rather than one that they planned.”
Cara Dillon, one of the most celebrated singers in Irish Folk music and BBC Folk Award winner, announces her brand new album Wanderer. For this, her seventh album, she offers a collection of songs featuring intimate performances that capture some of her most moving vocal performances to date.
With Street Cries, Ashley Hutchings revisits his 2001 album and produces some powerful new lyrics and, with the help of his collaborators (including Steve Knightley, June Tabor, Dick Gaughan, Cara Dillon and the late Vin Garbutt), he creates a collection of powerful and unique performances.
Next month sees Stratford Arts House, in partnership with Riverside Campsite, celebrate their first Stratford Folk Festival which will be headlined by Folk legends Show of Hands and Cara Dillon.
Geoff Lakeman steps into the limelight at 69 to release his debut solo album. Featuring a host of special guests including the Lakeman brothers, Cara Dillon, Kathryn Roberts and nearby neighbour Nic Jones.
This was an immense show, great performances by all, but it will inevitably now stick in the memory of all present for Rhiannon Giddens’ stunning performance who brought the house down with the perfect combination of soulful vocal and explosive delivery.
Johnny reports back on this year’s Fairport Cropredy Convention which featured many highlights including the Treetop Flyers, Cara Dillon, Benjamin Folke Thomas and more.
