Henry Parker

Henry Parker’s “The Dark Peak” delivers pristine, impeccably fingerpicked acoustic music recorded on the moors of the Peak District. An educated, high-end player, Parker shows a broad skillset and technical prowess throughout, without being overly flashy. With tight melodies and wonderfully evocative natural sounds permeating the songs, this mini-album is a gem.

Henry Parker returns on May 1st with “The Dark Peak,” a solo guitar EP shaped by a multi-day backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges. Watch the live video for “Upper Derwent,” filmed at a remote shooting cabin in the freezing December moorland. Delicate fingerpicking and field recordings of curlews, lapwings and bitter winds — landscape music at its most immersive.

Last week, Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts released their new album Chasing Light. Watch them performing the title track live – “a bright and bouncing track…a pretty, bucolic number.”

Chasing Light, the new instrumental duo album from Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts is a rich, fulfilling work by two intuitive players operating at a very high level and seemingly enjoying every moment.

Curated by UK guitarist, singer, and songwriter Henry Parker, Tompkins Square announce Imaginational Anthem vol. XII: I Thought I Told You – A Yorkshire Tribute to Michael Chapman and share Parker’s own cover of ‘In the Valley’.

To celebrate their November tour, David Ian Roberts & Henry Parker have recorded their first collaborative single ‘Tumuli’. Listen to it here, along with an exclusive playlist they’ve put together for Folk Radio.

Recorded at the Corner House Recording Studio, watch Henry Parker performing ‘Return to the Sky’, taken from his latest album ‘Lammas Fair’ which he is now touring.

Henry Parker’s Lammas Fair is an album full of old wisdom and new beginnings, deeply rooted in the wild landscape of northern England, but ultimately outward-looking and welcoming.

Watch the video for Lammas Fair, the title track of Henry Parker’s new album, and our Song of the Day. Parker’s own music lies in both the past and present and with performances like this, there’s plenty to celebrate for the future.

Watch Henry Parker performing the traditional folk ballad ‘The Snows They Melt the Soonest’, filmed in a woodland near the foot of Yewbarrow in the Lake District.

As an album, Silent Spring may be built on and around the folk-infused music of fifty years ago but its message is very much for today. Henry Parker is clearly an excellent guitarist and writer, but he has also not lost sight of the message. He has found his path.