It’s been six years since Karine Polwart and her tight-knit trio – which is completed…Read the postKarine Polwart: Laws of Motion – Folk Witness Album of the Year 2018
Singer-songwriter Kelly Oliver’s connection with the trad folk world goes right back to her debut…Read the postKelly Oliver on new album Botany Bay, Hertfordshire songs and organic arrangements
Although ‘psych-folk’ contains the magical four-letter f-word, the late 1960s and early 1970s period of…Read the postMark Constantine of ECC Records on psych-folk collaboration The Self Preservation Society
The first thing we hear is air filling the lungs of Ian Lynch’s uilleann pipes,…Read the postLankum: Between the Earth and Sky – Folk Witness Album of the Year 2017
Established enough to surely be sick of those ‘do you regret calling yourselves that?’ questions…Read the postThe Young’uns: Strangers
Wiltshire singer Rosie Hood – a third of The Dovetail Trio as well as a…Read the postRosie Hood on new album The Beautiful & The Actual, Wiltshire songs and her EFDSS fellowship
Jim Moray’s last album, Skulk, was undoubtedly a fine achievement. It showed a refinement of…Read the postJim Moray: Upcetera – Folk Witness Album of the Year 2016
These ‘song project’ albums are very definitely a thing now. Throwing together a group of…Read the postSweet Liberties
When you’ve been married for ten years, tradition dictates the anniversary gift should be made…Read the postThe Shee’s Amy Thatcher on new album Continuum, ten years of the band and the ‘musical journey’
Following the success of 2014’s This Willowed Light, Maz O’Connor is back with a new…Read the postMaz O’Connor interview part one: new album The Longing Kind, the writing process and folk heroines