Hi all. Ahead of the “Underneath the Stars” Festival 2018 (running 20-22 July), as fans of folk music and the wider spectrum of folky related things, we spoke to a number of artists leading up[…]
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Beardy Folk Festival 2018 – Artist Interviews – Part #2
Aloha! The time is very close indeed for the first-of-it’s-name “Beardy Folk Festival” down in Cleobury Mortimer. As I keep bleating about, there is an astonishing array of artists from the folk tradition there, quite[…]
Support Merrymaker’s charity single “Nobody here wants a war”
Nobody Here Wants A War- Charity Single Launch – 26/09/16 Pushing their best foot forward with all the sensibilities of protest folk, the band Merrymaker come at us with a new single “Nobody here[…]
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,[…]
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[…]