O’Hooley & Tidow

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’.

O’Hooley & Tidow announce new Micro Album and Tour: Summat’s Brewin’. A collection of traditional, contemporary and self-penned drinking songs that explore society’s fascination with drink, drinking and of course the real ale revolution.

We talk to Chris While and Julie Matthews about their latest album ‘Who We Are’ an album that includes songs about a village decimated by the plague in the 17th century and women working in Sheffield’s steel industry during wartime. Plus guest artists: O’Hooley & Tidow, Joe Broughton, Kellie While and Kit Bailey.

Southdowns Folk Festival looks set to be another great year with headliners including Show of Hands, Breabach, O’Hooley & Tidow, The Young’Uns, the Broonzies, Craobh Rua, Pilgrims’ Way and many more. Check our video preview.

We have a great ticket offer for Jim Boyes & Belinda O’Hooley performing Sensations of a Wound at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 17 February 2015. The offer is for the best available seats for just £7.50.

We have a pair of tickets to giveaway for The End Festival which runs from 20-23 Nov 2014 in London’s N8. Includes Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, O’Hooley & Tidow and more.

OHooley & Tidow and have unveiled their new video for their new song ‘The Pixie’, about an amazing woman called Daisy Daking who taught war weary troops to Morris Dance.

With their latest album already hailed as one of the albums of the year O’Hooley & Tidow reveal their new video for Peculiar Brood and announce their Winter Tour Dates.

Johnny reports back on Swanage Folk Festival taking in The Lucy Ward Band, Winter Wilson, Urban Folk Quartet, O’Hooley & Tiddow, Goat Roper Rodeo Band, Johnny Coppin and more.

Watch the Lucy Ward Band performing ‘Marching Through The Green Grass’. Their Autumn Tour kicks off today at All Saints Centre in Lewes.

Fresh from playing Glastonbury and with several other festivals also lined up for the summer, O’Hooley & Tidow release a new single form their superb Gerry Diver produced The Hum.

David Eagle talks to FRUK about The Young’uns appearance at Glastonbury. Plus we have a new video from them – Jack Ironside is a song originally written by the late Graeme Miles.

O’Hooley & Tidow announce ‘The Hum’ tour dates which also takes in Glastonbury, Larmer Tree, Cambridge Folk Festival and Green Man.