Author: markdishman

September 8, 2019 / markdishman / Album reviews

Ben Walker on new album Echo, poetry, Sussex and the nature of collaboration

You’re most likely to have seen Ben Walker, a quiet virtuoso of the finger-style guitar,…

March 30, 2019 / markdishman / Interviews

We recently spoke to Scottish singer Iona Fyfe about her new EP, but as she…

March 24, 2019 / markdishman / Album reviews

Iona Fyfe is a busy woman. When the singer, originally from Aberdeenshire, is not touring…

March 10, 2019 / markdishman / Album reviews

Would you believe it’s been 12 years since Ruth Notman released her charming debut solo…

January 23, 2019 / markdishman / Live reviews

Topic Records is 80! Almost certainly the world’s oldest independent record label marked its auspicious…

December 29, 2018 / markdishman / Album reviews

It’s been six years since Karine Polwart and her tight-knit trio – which is completed…

November 20, 2018 / markdishman / Live reviews

First conceived as a DIY community theatre project by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell in 2006, Hadestown,…

October 15, 2018 / markdishman / News

Folk Witness doesn’t usually carry much in the way of news, but we’re happy to…

September 18, 2018 / markdishman / Album reviews

Singer-songwriter Kelly Oliver’s connection with the trad folk world goes right back to her debut…

August 7, 2018 / markdishman / Live reviews

Stick in the Wheel singer Nicola Keary’s on-stage chat is the deadest deadpan you’ve ever…