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Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver take us Track-by-Track through their new album Hinterland – a gloriously free-spirited album and the perfect example of folk’s potential for reinvention.

With Hinterland, Gerry Diver and Lisa Knapp wanted to create something ‘raw and real and unrestrained,’ something that flies in the face of the notion that folk music is a static form…this gloriously free-spirited album is the perfect example of folk’s potential for reinvention. 

Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver share their new single and video, Train Song. Both the visuals, by Marry Waterson, and arrangements are woven together so unconventionally that those everyday scenes take on a magical curiosity as if noticing them for the first time.

Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver announce Hinterland album and share ‘Hawk and Crow’ single and video. For us, this isn’t just a folk song—it’s a conversation with the past, an ode to nature, and a glimpse of storytelling at its finest.

Watch the video for Gerry Diver’s new single Lockdown, his musical setting of Br Richard Hendrick’s poem of the same name which went viral. A moving tribute with all proceeds going to Age UK.

The acclaimed singer and flautist Rioghnach Connolly is to appear in She Moved Through The Fair: The Legend Of Margaret Barry at Kings Place, London on Saturday, March 16.

Raphael Doyle, a founding member of Café Society, returns to record a definitive album with the support of Tom Robinson, his son and Gerry Diver. A truly excellent piece of work from a man who finally found the self-confidence to believe in himself and the music he makes. We are all the richer for it.

We have the great pleasure in premiering ‘Waiting For P To Have a Vision’, the new digital single from Brighton-based artist and troubadour Jinnwoo (aka Ben Webb), an artist we featured in session in 2014.

Looking for a new sound to match his visions of England Wes Finch had a notion Gerry Diver might steer him there and the wonderful, wildly creative Awena proves him right. If a record could be a page turner then this is it.

With Tom Robinson due to release a new album, his first in 20 years, produced by Gerry Diver and featuring guest contributions from Martin Carthy & Billy Bragg, we were naturally inquisitive. Jon Earl went along to London to catch his ‘rough mix of tunes’. It turned out to be a very memorable evening.

Our Tune of the Day is from Ensemble Ériu, an Irish septet led by Jack Talty and Neil O’Loghlen. Although rooted in the Irish music tradition I’ve never heard anything like this before.

Our Song of the Day is a track première from Naomi Bedford’s forthcoming album ‘A History of Insolence’. Listen to her lovely version of Gypsy Davy featuring Justin Currie of Del Amitri on backing vocals.