Category: Interviews

November 24, 2023 / markdishman / Album reviews

Jim Moray on ‘alternative history’ Beflean, Abbey Road and sounds with surface texture

An alternative history: a canny idea for a folk musician. When reinterpretation is your stock…

August 21, 2023 / markdishman / Interviews

By all accounts, Frankie Archer had a cracking Cambridge Folk Festival, impressing audiences in The…

April 18, 2021 / markdishman / Album reviews

Remarkably, First Farewell is Peggy Seeger’s 24th solo album. In a career that has lasted…

March 16, 2020 / markdishman / Interviews

Folk Witness has been talking to Jackie Oates about her new album, made with ‘Squeezy’…

March 7, 2020 / markdishman / Album reviews

Fans of Jackie Oates – and regular readers of Folk Witness – will be aware…

November 24, 2019 / markdishman / Interviews

Folk Witness has been talking to Josienne Clarke about her debut solo album, In All…

November 17, 2019 / markdishman / Album reviews

Josienne Clarke has made some serious changes. Leaving London – and her duo partnership with…

September 8, 2019 / markdishman / Album reviews

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…