chris wood

Chris Wood is out on tour this month and early December. We look back at a past gig to highlight why you don’t want to miss this tour, learn about his sofa and share a lockdown session from his garden.

The highly acclaimed 2004 Ghosts album by the English Acoustic Collective is now available via Bandcamp featuring Chris Wood, Rob Harbron and John Dipper.

Chris Wood is one of the few song writers on the circuit today who can artfully present the lives and situations of the world around us. And do it so beautifully. He does indeed give us the medicine we need to carry on to the next day.

Next month, Chris Wood embarks on his autumn tour beginning in Scotland and including Tolbooth Stirling and Glasgow’s The Hug and Pint, before heading south for dates in Leeds, Birmingham, Oxford, London, Brighton and more.

The latest video from Chris Wood offers a lighthearted look at life on the road for a touring musician. It has one of the most original openings I’ve seen in a while…concerning the Marks and Spencer’s New York Deli Pastrami Sandwich.

Joined by special guests, including Chris Wood, fiddle player Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift, better known as Twelfth Day, gave a remarkable performance at Celtic Connections. True originals who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard.

So Much To Defend wears its heart on its sleeve. Wood’s delivery is unhurried and deliberate, his lyrics are unashamedly earnest, and his concerns are moral and humane. He has created a wise, soulful set of songs that should see him consolidate his place at the top table of British songwriters.

Jon Boden compiles The Ultimate Guide To English Folk, a lavish two-disc primer designed to appeal to experienced folkies and newbies alike. It is not the first such collection, but it is probably the most wide-ranging, lovingly compiled and inventively sequenced. One of the most important messages to take from this compilation is that while folk music in England is something of an extended family, it is by no means …

Poetry and Lyrics is a new festival dedicated to the relationship between poetry and music which will be hosted at London’s Kings Place featuring Cerys Matthews, Chris Wood, Gareth Bonello, Haiku Salut, Dizraeli and many more.

Read our Live Review of The Shee’s launch of their Continuum Project at Celtic Connections also featuring Karine Polwart, Chris Wood, Andy Cutting, Kathryn Tickell and Martin Simpson.

In our latest ‘Guest Feature’ The Shee will be telling us all about their tenth anniversary Continuum project, and introducing us to their nominated collaborators. Olivia Ross starts the ball rolling with her choice – Chris Wood.

To mark their ten-year milestone The Shee announce new collaborative project ‘Continuum’ featuring a host of well known folk composers. We will be hearing from each band member over the next six weeks in a special Folk Radio UK feature.

In part 3 of our live review of Gate to Southwell Festival we have live footage from Clannad, Simpson-Cutting-Kerr, We Banjo 3, The Young’uns, The Tweed Project, Manran and more.

In part one of our live review of Gate to Southwell Festival Johnny takes in top performances from Ranagri, The Hot Seats, Chris Wood, Billy Bragg & The Young’uns. It was, without a doubt, a superb festival and we have more to come!

Our Song of the Day is Caesar. Watch Chris Wood performing live with Hamish Stuart at Atkins Guitars. Chris recalls it being inspired by the Cash-for-questions affair, or one of the parliamentary scandals…there’s been so many. Plus we have his latest tour dates including Folk East with Andy Cutting.

Our Song of the Day is from the fabulous Chris Wood by way of a video of him performing ‘Jerusalem’ at The Green Backyard, a vibrant community growing project in the heart of Peterborough which has been placed under threat by developers. It is one of the last green spaces in the city centre which needs saving. Chris is on tour now.

We continue our Sidmouth FolkWeek Memories with an interview with Chris Wood. Plus a special Song of the Day – Andy Cutting & Chris Wood filmed in 1996 performing Hares on the Mountain.

fRoots Celebrate their 35th anniversary year with a special gig at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall feat. artists who will perform together for the first time.