O’Hooley & Tidow

O’Hooley & Tidow invite you to their alternative celebration of Christmas as they announce their WinterFolk tour featuring winter songs and carols. Plus listen to them performing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘River’.

Watch the new video for O’Hooley & Tidow’s ‘Small, Big Love’. Written by Kathryn Williams, the duo called on the multi-talented Marry Waterson to work her animation magic, the results are really quite magical. All three stars aligned perfectly.

We talk in-depth to Belinda of O’Hooley & Tidow, our Artists of the Month, about the making of ‘Shadows’. Belinda reveals the inspiration behind the album, personal highlights, challenges, as well as exciting plans for the future.

Shadows succeeds through the striking humanity of its songs, and by their originality. It’s an album that will hopefully see its creators heralded as one of the most vital – and indeed one of the most experimental – acts on the folk circuit and beyond.

O’Hooley & Tidow announce new album Shadows, listen to the premiere of ‘Made in England’, a very topical song which features performer and activist; Grace Petrie and Lady Maisery. The album will be launched and Cambridge Folk Festival in July.

The Coven, comprised of O’Hooley and Tidow, Grace Petrie and Lady Maisery, brought warmth, wit and wonder to Greystones on a Friday night in a cold damp Sheffield to celebrate International Women’s Day

Part Two – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Bella Hardy, Damien O’Kane, Fabian Holland, Jackie Oates, Karen Matheson, False Lights, O’Hooley & Tidow, Martyn Joseph, Richard Thompson, Rachel Taylor-Beales, Eliza Carthy, John Jones and more.

Coven is an exciting new collaboration and tour to celebrate International Women’s Day in MARCH 2016. Featuring: O’Hooley & Tidow, Lady Maisery & Grace Petrie. Don’t miss it!

The Ballads of Child Migration is an album of brand new songs from some of Britain’s finest folk musicians inspired by these heart breaking true stories and coincides with a new exhibition taking place at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood.

We caught up with the wonderful O’Hooley and Tidow at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival where they performed a couple of songs for us from their new album ‘Summat’s Brewin’. Watch it here.

The sheer ebullient inventiveness of the duo’s musical settings, their committed sense of fun, their consummate, enviable musicality, their serious ability to grab your attention and carry you through the experience – all these qualities are faithfully conveyed in this lovingly crafted exceptional recording.

Under a new Union Music Store project a number of prominent folk singers give their response to the 2015 election result with a new album of contemporary protest songs. Listen to one of them with the new video from Lucy Ward for ‘Bigger Than That’.