Ahoy! Circumstances all over the place and a packed schedule of festivals has meant that I am on the folk treadmill to returning to writing about the music I love. I am not very far[…]
Category: Dark Folk
Harp and a Monkey @ Village Folk – 25th February
Once again I was released from the steel gates of Sheffield and able to descend the long-winding roads to Derbyshire. There I went to see the latest artist “Harp and a Monkey” to perform for a[…]
Halloween Video of the Week – Lady Maisery’s – The Crow on the Cradle
Boo! It’s Halloween, Samhain, All Saint’s Eve or any other permeation of word to describe this fantastic time of year and to get in the mood I’ve been listening to some dark folk of time[…]
South Yorkshire FRW Music Festival – Sep 2016: Said The Maiden
Authentic energy brought to dark, traditional numbers and original work. http://www.saidthemaiden.co.uk/ Admittedly one of the two acts that drew me to the the new festival in Doncaster (South Yorkshire Folk, Roots and World) at the Leopard,[…]
Jenny Sturgeon’s “From the Skein” Album Review
A good debut album that effectively conveys Sturgeon’s love of history. A balance exists as wide myth collides with shared Scots history; brilliance flickers in some of the darker tracks which hint at even better things to[…]
KARA – Some Other Shore – “a deep thematic album of tragedy and triumph” – review
Released June 2016 KARA return with another excellent album called “Some Other Shore” (their debut was also nautical sounding, “Waters So Deep”). The particularities that make the sound and ideas appealing can be boiled down[…]