Jonathan Day

Jonathan Day returns as Jonathan Hijr Day Quartet with his new single, Cafe in the Valley of the Fire Church, born from his travels among the Amazigh and recorded at Gavin Monaghan’s Magic Garden Studios. Featuring Simon Smith on bass, Meinir Olwen on harp, Niimi Day Gough on voice and Adam Knight on vibraphone, the track fuses Celtic soul with Songhoy blues.

Jonathan Day has released a moving new song and video for easter/Ostara featuring portraits by Anne Brierley made during the Gaza conflict – “These beautiful faces are lost to us now – we will not hear their laughter, see their drawings, hear their music.”

Jonathan Day has shared a beautiful animated video by Panadda Saetsai & Nuchteera Siwadune for In a Garden of Stones taken from his latest album Sakura.

This month, Jonathan Day heads to M’hamid El Ghizlane, for Festival Taragalte, where he and his band will play under the starry skies. He shares his previous experience of the festival and talks about the importance of tourism to the area following the recent earthquake.

The songs on Jonathan Day’s ‘Sakura’ are characterised by a profound philosophical insight and the importance of music and nature. But most of all, it is an album about love and the small but important connections between humans in a world that can feel overwhelmingly big.

Jonathan Day and his band are taking their contemporary rural music to a string of festivals this summer and he has a new lineup they are calling the Great Recovery, expect very joyful arrangements, animated live projections and even some hand-powered animatronic shadow puppets.

Our Song of the Day is Cajsa’s Tears (the lost brides) from Jonathan Peter Day’s new album ‘a Spirit Library’ out now on Niimiika Records and also one of our Featured Albums of the Month. 

Jonathan Day’s Spirit Library is the work of an artist who, whether through the experience of travel or through deep contemplation of his surroundings, has come to terms with his place in the world, and it is utterly beautiful.

Currently, on the road with his Spirit Wife Tour, Jonathan Day talks to us about synchronicity and his ongoing album project Vagabond Language as well as sharing some of his many travelling experiences.

We recently caught up with Jonathan Day who is currently touring his forthcoming new album Vagabond Language. Listen to him performing in Fingal’s Cave and read about how his new album came about.

Jonathan Day is currently on his Deciduous Tour – a sound of birds on the road less travelled…don’t miss his UK dates which include Wenlock Poetry Festival, Workhouse Festival and Phoenix Festival.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. He heads over the sea in a force 6 to Rhum for the perhaps the most essential launch gig of the tour.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour as he arrives in Shanghai before heading to Beijng for the final part of his China tour.

We join Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. We join him as he arrives in China to perform in Gangzhou and Shenzhen.

Atlantic Drifter is the latest album from FRUK favourite Jonathan Day… It has an air of quiet self-assurance which negates the need for any superfluous bells and whistles. The music exists in and of itself yet remains both approachable and absorbing; placeless but grounded, timeless and yet somehow outside time.

Jonathan Day is currently touring, pre-viewing his new album Atlantic Drifter, to be released by Proper in September this year from which you can watch his new video for ‘Sea Full of BIrds,’ our Song of the Day.

Jonathan Day talks to Folk Radio UK about music and travelling: There’s something magical about travelling with music. Perhaps because music is itself the closest thing we have to magic…

The latest Folk Radio UK mix is titled ‘The Tradition’ and includes A.L. Lloyd singing alongside Jackie Oates (Walking with Ghosts project) as well as a mix of new and old from the likes of Alasadair Roberts, Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy, Hedy West, Jason Steel, Elle Osborne, Lucy Ward, Dougie Maclean and more.