Nick Hart

The viola and viol combination on Nick Hart and Tom Moore’s “The Colour of Amber” adds a beautiful richness and depth to the songs and tunes, and the album stands head and shoulders above just about any other English traditional album of the last few years.

Shifting away from his previous unique stripped-back style, Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs features a surprisingly wide variety of instruments and some impressively alluring multi-layered arrangements. He carries these folk songs on into the current time, giving them new life and extending their long history.

Taken from his new album ‘Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs’, watch the accompanying video for Nick Hart’s refreshingly inventive lead single ‘Dives & Lazarus’. It’s a tour de force achievement and so brilliantly well-executed.

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.

On Nick Hart latest offering, his effortless phrasing, the clarity and simplicity of the song, the voice, the guitar, entrap the listener and pull us into the timeless – then and now – world of the folk song. Excellent again.

Watch Nick Hart performing Riding Down to Portsmouth, our Song of the Day, taken from his new album ‘Nine English Folk Songs’. Nick is touring throughout May and June to support the release, with several high profile festival appearances over the summer so don’t miss him!

Throughout the whole album, there is a sense of Hart enjoying himself, little glints of a wry smile here and there, a little joke held to himself. And, importantly, here is another generation learning from the previous generations, moulding it in some cases but still presenting the tradition. Absolutely excellent.