Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith

Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith return with “Wakefire: A Summer Album”, a full-scale double album that trumps its predecessor in both ambition and reward. Presented as a largely chronological account of summer, twenty-seven tracks might sound like something of a throwback in today’s climate of instant gratification, but they make it seem like a revolutionary act, and a hugely gratifying one at that.

To celebrate their 10 years on the folk scene, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith will embark on an anniversary tour this autumn. They will present a retrospective show with songs & tunes taken from across their 4 albums plus a few new offerings.

Featuring songs from landworkers and some well-known folk singers, ‘Stand Up Now’ is a beautiful and enchanting album that uses its traditional sound to explore a range of political issues surrounding the agricultural industry. Ultimately, it’s an album about hope; hope for a better, fairer world.

Award-winning trio Lady Maisery and beguiling musical partnership of Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith return with Awake Arise – A Christmas Show For Our Time. Tickets available for Southampton today at Turner Sims as well as a live stream from Kings Place on 20 Dec.

Folk In The Fall offers a long-awaited day of live music ft. Leveret, Martin Simpson, Kathryn Tickell & Amy Thatcher, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith and Emily Portman & Rob Harbron.

FROM THE COOP: a celebration of the creativity that came out of one small suburban house in Bristol, home to eight musicians and four rescue chickens during lockdown.

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith partner with Kings Place for one-day festival exploring the role folk music can play in highlighting environmental issues. featuring Karine Polwart, Peggy Seeger, George Monbiot, Hazel Askew and Edgelarks.

A superb debut from the astoundingly multi-talented Lady Maisery trio and the unique, trusty Aldridge-Goldsmith partnership – celebrating “the power, beauty and vitality of song”.

Fitty Gomash, that rabble-rousing eight-piece from the West Country, have released a new video for the single, Jim Jones, taken from their album No Man for our Times. Watch it here.

Part Two of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Ben Glover, Faeland, Shooglenifty, Brona McVittie, Emma Tricca, Glenn Jones, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Rachael McShane, John Smith, Kacy & Clayton and lots more.

Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith join forces for a 9-date Christmas Show featuring an evening of galvanising songs for the wintertime, drawing on a variety of winter traditions from rousing folk carols to more contemplative and hopeful music to brighten the darkest season.

With Many a Thousand, Aldridge and Goldsmith have created a record whose songs are immediate and politically necessary, and whose melodies will remain in the memory for years to come. 

Our Song of the Day is Moved On by Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith. The duo wrote the song about the residents of Newham in East London, and in particular, the campaigners in Focus E15 who are fighting a long battle to secure social housing in the area.

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith return with their second album, Night Hours. Backed by the members of folk trio Teyr, it is an album that is exhilaratingly diverse and full of impeccably crafted and beautifully realised songs.

This week’s mix features all new music, some of which is yet to be released. The one thing they all share is that they push the boundaries in terms of creating original music, and it is this which sets this particular playlist apart.

‘Night Hours’ is the second album release from Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith due out on December 9th, watch their new video for the title track, a song that explores the loneliness of night work in our cities.

Roots 66 is a new folk festival to be held at The Theatre By The Lake in Keswick over the weekend of Feb 5-7th 2016 which will incorporate two showcase concerts to celebrate 40 Years of Fellside Recordings. Lineup includes Chris While & Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, The Mighty Doonans, Ewan McLennan and more.

This duo really made my week: Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith are a London/Bristol based duo who play mainly traditional music that originates from the British Isles. They perform on guitar and banjo and together with their great vocal harmonies are an absolute joy to listen to. Their debut album ‘Let the Wind Blow High or Low’ is out now on Fellside Records.