hannah james

Folk singer, musician and dancer Hannah James is about to tour her new innovative and inspiring solo show JigDoll. She took some time out before heading on the road to tell us about JigDoll, the inspiration behind it and some of the challenges she has faced.

Lady Maisery have been announced as the headliners at this year’s Baring-Gould Folk Weekend in Devon. Talking exclusively to Folk Radio UK, one-third of the folk harmony trio, Hazel Askew, hints that the festival-goers might be treated to the premiere of some new songs …

Against expectations Chatterbox is one of the freshest and in its quiet way one of the most spectacular albums I have heard this year. Ranging from incantatory to reflective, it is always subtle, vital, and feminine in the most elementary sense of the word. Bartosik and James look to have created an entirely new platform for the accordion, but more importantly the have created a beautiful set of recordings.

This June ten Scottish and English folk musicians will head to the west coast Isle of Eigg to make an album together that reflects on the issue of ‘separation’ in its many forms, through traditional song. They include Karine Polwart, Eliza Carthy, Mary Macmaster, Hannah James and more.

With the great success of The Elizabethan Session those all-star sessions are revived and brought north to Celtic Connections for a final performance at The Mitchell Theatre.

Acclaimed English folk band Kerfuffle are to reunite to perform music from their acclaimed Midwinter album ‘Lighten The Dark’ this December during a short run of dates in the weeks before Christmas.

We talk to the ever popular English Folk artists Hannah James (Lady Masiery) and Saw Sweeney (Bellowhead).

The highly talented English folk duo Hannah James & Sam Sweeney are due to release their second album State and Ancientry on 2nd April through Root Beat Records.

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