As much-loved Moray folk festival Speyfest gears up for its long-awaited return this summer, organisers have unveiled the schedule for the 25th anniversary festival, with more acts added to the line-up. The three-day event will take place between 22nd - 24th July,...
The Magpie Arc, the cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Scotland, takes flight in 2022 with selected tour dates and festivals. Featuring the multi-award winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter and Martin...
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith are one of the most celebrated duos to have emerged onto the British folk and acoustic scene in recent years. Their combination of outstanding vocal work, sensitive instrumentation, and a powerful social conscience has brought them...
As reunions go they don’t come much sweeter or timely than this. Back in 2012, Suffolk’s inaugural FolkEast festival saw an act described as ‘the most ambitious folk fusion band of the 21st century’ perform a memorable finale headline set. Bold and cross-cultural, The...
An ambitious 5 year long research project has launched to investigate ways to increase and diversify participation in English folk singing. Access Folk asks: What is the place of folk singing in contemporary England? How do people want to engage with English cultural...
Fellow Pynins is an award winning contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony, anchored in the balladry tradition. Hailing from Portland, Oregon the Fellow Pynins consists of Dani Aubert (claw hammer banjo, bouzouki) and solo artist Ian...
If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the current English folk revival, it’s Eliza Carthy MBE. Beloved of staunch traditionalists and iconoclasts alike, Eliza’s music effortlessly crosses boundaries of genre and style. Whether performing a...
Topette!! occupy a unique position in the current folk and traditional music landscape. A collaboration between five highly-regarded individuals from two countries, they’re the kind of perfect idea that, if they didn’t already exist, someone would have to invent. Yet...
As Katherine Priddy hits the road on her headline UK tour, she has announced the vinyl release of her widely acclaimed debut album The Eternal Rocks Beneath (Navigator Records) on August 26th 2022. Released to glowing reviews and extensive radio airplay on CD and...
Talented group of music industry executives and a new artist Ambassador join Help Musicians as the charity seeks to reach more musicians of all genres of music across the U.K * Help Musicians, the 101-year-old charity for musicians across the UK, has announced a range...
Katie Doherty formed the Navigators to explore the depth and strength that three players could bring to her award winning songs. What was unexpected in this combination was the power and dynamic which is often described as much bigger than its component parts. Katie’s...
Award-winning Altfolk songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist Chris Cleverley unveils glimpses of his first new material in nearly three years, throughout eight performances on his tour of England this May/June. I had lost my way with song writing for a long time; unable...
Singer-songwriter Jono McCleery grew up in London’s cultural milieu. Deaf until the age of five it wasn’t until he was 17 that he picked up the guitar. In the early noughties, McCleery became part of the city’s vibrant ’underground’ scene with poets and musicians who...
Much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow were suddenly propelled into newfound fame for penning the theme tune for Sally Wainwright’s hit BBC1/HBO drama ‘Gentleman Jack’ in 2019, earning them global admiration, appearances on TV, Radio 4 Woman’s...
Soulful song of the threatened curlew inspires double album of music to help save it. Money raised will be used for RSPB projects. ‘Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds’ is a unique double album, multi-artist project of newly-commissioned works and soundscapes, inspired by one of...
Kate Rusby has shared the first preview track “We Will Sing”, a joyous song featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, from her forthcoming 30th anniversary album 30 : Happy Returns (Pure Records) . Premiering the track on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, Mark Radcliffe commented:...
After embarking on a solo career, releasing his debut solo album The Unfinished Violin on Island Records and touring it to sell-out crowds on the 2019 album launch tour, Sam released his second album Unearth Repeat in 2020 and is touring the album for the second and...
For over 30 years Boo Hewerdine has been considered one of the UK's finest singer songwriters as well as an accomplished producer and performer. As lead singer of seminal band The Bible, through to his subsequent solo work and long-time collaborations, he has become...
First Single Announced From The First New Album By The Unthanks In Seven Years Announced on the first day of their five-week Sorrows Away tour, The Unthanks release The Bay Of Fundy - the first track to be heard from their forthcoming album Sorrows Away on The...
One of folk ‘s most inventive line-ups is to join forces with best-selling author Raynor Winn* this summer for a tour which mines traditional songs and tunes from the West Country and new words inspired by the region. Gigspanner Big Band is a sensational sextet led...
