Ahead of his UK tour in May 2023 with C Joynes, we catch up with Mike Gangloff, a founding member of Pelt and The Black Twig Pickers, to chat about taking Appalachian fiddle music into new spectrums, Shape Note singing, Jack Rose, Pelt and more.
Originally released in 2003 on CD, VHF records are to reissue Pelt’s Pearls From The River on vinyl for the first time. It features the “classic” Pelt trio lineup of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, and Patrick Best.
If you love the minimalist folk music of Cath and Phil Tyler, Shirley Collins, Lankum and Anna & Elizabeth then folk duo House and Land may well be right up your street. They are on tour in Europe in October 2017. Watch them perform The Day is Past and Gone, our Song of the Day.
Nansemond is Nathan Bowles boldest sonic outing yet, sounding fresh whilst still alluding to the sounds of the past. An artist crafting a story, part myth, part memoir.
