Featuring a number of special guests, Kronos Quartet announce Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger, a tribute to the music, political philosophy, and social impact of Pete Seeger
Following the release of Fatal Flower Garden, we catch up with Sam Amidon to chat about Harry Smith, Sacred Harp singing, Thomas Bartlett, Arthur Russell …and basketball award ceremonies.
Sam Amidon steps into the mystic’s “memory theatre” as he draws from the Anthology of American Folk Music. Expansive and eccentric in equal measure, it just goes to show there’s plenty more digging worth doing.
Ahead of his UK/Ireland tour, Sam Amidon announces new EP ‘Fatal Flower Garden’ which pays tribute to Harry Smith. Watch his video for lead single for “Spike Driver Blues”.
Known more for their dance floor releases, Berlin-based duo Mouse on Mars announce Dimensional People featuring Justin Vernon, Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National), Zach Condon (Beirut), Lisa Hannigan, Sam Amidon, and more.
LAU announce LAU-LAND Glasgow featuring workshops, discussions, sessions and live concerts from the likes of Eliza Carthy, Siobhan Miller, Cormac Begley, Sam Amidon, Pictish Trail, Jaimini Jethwa, Brighde Chaimbeul and more.
In our latest Folk Show, we open with a Folk Radio UK session from Gregory Alan Isakov. Plus new music from Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds, Emily Mure, Laura Baird, Josh Ritter, Shake the Chains and more.
Experimental folk artist Sam Amidon shares a new video for ‘Warren’ from The Following Mountain. Amidon will tour Europe this autumn. The tour includes his first headlining performance at London’s Union Chapel on October 26,
There’s something personal about Sam Amidon’s The Following Mountain, it’s as though it’s being put together in real-time; this makes it a refreshingly disjointed record that almost describes the creative process that defines it.
The Kronos Quartet plays alongside four labelmates – Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant – to transport traditional folk songs to new arrangements.
Nonesuch announces new Kronos Quartet album entitled Folk Songs on which they join forces with four labelmates—Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant.
The latest in our Lost in Transmission Series features new music from Lisa Knapp, Brigid Mae Power, Sam Amidon, Holy Modal Rounders, Toby Hay, David Allred, Peter Broderick and more.
