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Looking for the Thread offers a captivating meeting of different but kindred musical minds of Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. All three can be proud of their collaboration; we can but hope for a sequel.

Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart are to collaborate on a new album with Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Looking For The Thread is out on January 24th 2025 with Thirty Tigers worldwide, ahead of which they have shared a new single titled ‘Hold Everything’.

A slow burn album that mingles confusion and clarity, despair and determination, “in brokenness we are whole,” she sings. Mary Chapin Carpenter will put you together again.

On her latest single, Mary Chapin Carpenter reflects on the passing of time with “Our Man Walter Cronkite”, named after the CBS Evening News anchorman who was called “the most trusted man in America”.

Currently, on tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter in the UK, watch Emily Barker performing a cover of Mary Chapin’s Oh Rosetta which is also our Song of the day. Both singers share a love for the pioneering blues guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Veteran singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has just released ‘Sometimes just the Sky’, a reimagined set of songs that span a thirty-plus year long career. We met to chat about the inspiration behind the project.

Sometimes Just the Sky is the latest offering from Mary Chapin Carpenter, our Artist of the Month. The album is a beautifully conceived and considered set that provides a rich and generous window into the career of this great veteran singer songwriter.

Julie Fowlis has announced her fifth studio album Alterum. The Latin title makes the subtle suggestion that this record is a departure from what has gone before. Special guests include Mary Chapin Carpenter. Watch the album trailer.

Mary Chapin Carpenter is about to embark on her UK tour following the release of ‘The Things That We Are Made Of’, a Featured Album of the Month on FRUK. Watch a series of special videos in which she talks in depth about her new album.

‘The Things That We Are Made Of’ presents the listener with new songs that remind us of exactly why Carpenter is such a universally admired singer/song writer; just why again and again, we fall in love with her music.

Listen to two tracks from Mary Chapin Carpenter’s forthcoming new album The Things We are Made Of. She returns to the UK in May where she will headline Bob Harris’ “Under The Apple Tree Roots Festival”.

Underneath the Stars Festival which is co-run by Kate Rusby and situated near Barnsley have put together a great line up. The festival is running for three full days this year and artists include Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eddi Reader, Martin Simpson, Bruce Molsky, Bob Fox, The Young’uns, Damien O’Kane, Keston Cobblers Club, Siobhan Miller, Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston, Luke Daniels and Jim Causley. Watch our video preview.