The National Piping Centre has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to protect the legacy of its Piping Times and Piping Today periodicals. The two-strand project involves the digitisation of the magazine archive, a resource that will be free to access...
With the biggest easing of COVID restrictions about to go ahead, and the roadmap out of lockdown on target, England’s most easterly folk festival, FolkEast, has confirmed it is on course to return this August – with weekend tickets now on sale. Last summer FolkEast...
After over a year of inactivity Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are taking to the road again this June in the duo format that launched their careers over 25 years ago. Folk awards, sell-out Albert Hall shows, honorary doctorates and headline festival appearances all...
Can it be true ?? Dare we even believe it ?? I type this with everything crossed after frantically running around the house, madly implementing the ancient pagan ritual used by the Celts, who believed that spirits and gods resided in trees. ( I'll give you a moment...
The mystery of a headline-hitting Seventies folk singer who went missing for 30 years is the inspiration for this captivating new single from the extraordinary genre-hopping talent that is Joshua Burnell. I wonder where she goes; she never says, you see Rarer than a...
Sheelanagig for over a decade have brought their array of foot-stomping folk tunes to audiences across the globe. A quintet with a well-stocked armoury of stringed instruments – guitar, fiddle, double bass – added with the rhythmic energy of flute and drums and a...
FEASTIE BOYS ARE BACK ON THE MAP! ....with new music and real concerts at venues and festivals from 17th May, when the roadmap will allow it. Some are indoor and some outside. At some venues they’re doing two concerts so that the audience can be well spaced out – yes...
Penny Sweets is the latest single from Jack Badcock’s five-track EP The Driftwood Project which sees the singer songwriter explore and experiment with musical genres and instrumentation to produce a unique and exciting body of work. Following the release of two tracks...
An international bill of leading folk artists from Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark and Canada will feature as part of this year’s online Orkney Folk Festival - alongside a number of newly commissioned performances from homegrown Orcadian artists. Dubbed the...
In this exciting new collaboration from two of British folk's finest voices, Miranda Sykes (Show of Hands) and Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band) join forces to present a set of songs that take them back to their shared roots. Having played together on...
Owing to the lack of a Government backed COVID specific insurance scheme to provide a vital safety net to events this summer, the organisers of Boomtown Fair have come to the difficult decision to no longer go ahead in 2021. Rumours and speculation about vaccination...
Roke: An old East Anglian word describing the smoke-like mist that rises in the evening off marshes and water meadows. East Anglian-based duo Lucy and Jon Hart have always had a strong sense of place. Performing as Honey and The Bear, the multi-instrumental...
GANDHI is the beautiful new album from Portuguese bamboo flute master, Rão Kyao, honouring one of greatest spiritual and political leaders of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948). It features proud and peaceful music evoking the spirit of Gandhi’s life and...
It is the 50th anniversary of the British Tunnelling Society this year. No, I didn't know that either. But now I do I want to know more. The society has commissioned Nancy Kerr to create a 'a mythical-industrial song cycle ', which, as you would expect from the...
Two-time Canadian Juno Award nominee Suzie Ungerleider officially opens a new chapter of her already distinguished and highly successful career with the August 13 release of her new album entitled My Name is Suzie Ungerleider. It's her first since the artist formerly...
A member of the much-loved duo Belshazzar’s Feast, Paul Hutchinson has 20 years of touring in the UK, He is regarded as one of the top accordionists in the country because of his unique, refreshing, and at times ‘classical’ approach to playing. For Paul, the March...
If the interweaved vocals, pure harmonies, and plaintive piano of new single ‘Gather' from Devon-based folk-duo Suthering ring some familiar bells, it is because those voices belong to acclaimed composers, choir leaders, and songwriters Julu Irvine and Heg...
Multi-award-winning band Skerryvore have announced a special livestream show to be broadcast from Edinburgh’s exclusive floating hotel, Fingal on Saturday 24 April 2021 – and tickets went on sale at 9am today, Friday 2 April. Skerryvore Onboard will see the...
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from Norwich. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving and deeply inspired by the world...
Highland folk juggernauts Elephant Sessions are presenting a very special lockdown streaming show on Saturday 10 April at 8.00pm. Bringing their now infamous late-night party show, from a custom built stage, join them and go behind the scenes as they play their...
