This is a list of everything we have on folking.com in date and month order. So if you like trawling the depths of the site for amazing content that you may have missed then this is the place to “net” an article, feature or review or two.
The archive is a work in progress as we still have gaps to fill from 2009 back to 2001. Most of the missing content are older album reviews which require reformatting with each article having to be submitted back on to the site with album covers and links to where they can be obtained from (where available).
FILKIN’S DRIFT – Glan (own label FM03)
We're very late with this album for which I apologise to Seth Bye and Chris Roberts most sincerely. Seth and Chris are Filkin's Drift and ...
LEVELLERS – Zeitgeist (30th Anniversary Edition) (On The Fiddle)
I always feel my age when I see an anniversary edition of an album I bought first time around. Zeitgeist was released in 1995 and ...
Official Folk Albums Chart – November 2025
On Tuesday 2nd December the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the October reporting period in ...
Fairport Convention announce spring tour dates
In a change to their usual schedule, legendary Folk-Rockers Fairport Convention have announced dates for their all new Spring Tour, starting on 17th March 2026 ...
BRINSLEY SCHWARZ – Shouting At The Moon
Brinsley Schwarz – the band and the man – are one of the legendary names for my generation, opening for Wings, playing on the Old ...
SINGLES BAR 119 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Following on from the ‘Lord Of Chaos’ single featuring Kathy Pilkinton on vocals and Graham Coe on cello with its theme of shedding your burdens ...
First news from Cambridge Folk Festival
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 10am for the Cambridge Folk Festival weekend at Cherry Hinton Hall with a fabulous first ...
Maz O’Connor announces new album
Love It Is A Killing Thing is O’Connor’s first album in four years: she took time out from recording and performing to have her first ...
ST AGNES FOUNTAIN – Flakes & Flurries (Fat Cat CFATCD060)
Their name taken from a line in ‘Good King Wenceslas’, possibly referring to the Somerset village well established in 1820 by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, ...
SOFIA TALVIK – Wrapped In Paper (A Christmas Album) (Makaki Music)
Having just released an album by her side project Hansan, all sung Swedish, Talvik now offers Wrapped In Paper, a seasonal folk-Americana collection of songs, ...
DEBORAH ROSE – Atlas (Abracadeborah/Good Companion Records)
Variously written and recorded in Ludlow, London, Nashville and Morocco, part produced by Boo Hewerdine and Chris Pepper with other contributions from Jeremy Jameson and Ben ...
TORRIDON : Polaroid (own label DRCD005)
Torridon are a band from Ross-shire, in Scotland and, despite two decades of longevity under their belts, seem never to have quite made the crossover ...
GUS WHITE – For Now, Anyway (Man Made Tigers)
Time for some Britainicana. That’s not a word I’d come across, but it’s how Wiltshire singer-songwriter Gus White describes the music on his second album, ...
THE HAAR – The Lost Day (Under The Eaves UTE 012)
Sometimes, you know by the track listing that you'll enjoy an album. The Lost Day includes one of my all-time favourite songs in a list of generally ...
Sunjay Announces Winter 2025 Solo UK Tour
Multi-award-winning guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Sunjay is pleased to announce his twelve-date headline solo tour entitled I’m Just Like You which is in support of ...
THE HENRY GIRLS – Tracks In The Snow (own label)
Originally a children’s winter show commissioned in 2015 by The Ark Cultural Centre for Children in Dublin and funded by the Arts Council, Tracks In ...
WINTER WONDERBAND – Joy Illimited (own label WWB001)
If you put four talented and experienced musicians together they would probably form a band. Maclaine Colston, Jennifer Crook, Beth Porter and Saul Rose became ...
MARTHA TILSTON – live at The Barrel House, Totnes
The very bohemian Barrel House in the heart of Totnes couldn’t be a more suitable venue for Martha Tilston, permanent Christmas cluster lights sway overhead ...
Shrewsbury Folk Festival names first artists for 2026
Shrewsbury Folk Festival has released the first names on its 2026 bill following this year’s record-breaking event that saw a sell-out of weekend tickets weeks ...
LUCY KITT – Telling Me (Wineberry Records WBRCD 2)
An Essex native with a deep affection for 70s Laurel Canyon folk, indie rock and country, with songs that draw on the lives and struggles ...
DAVE BURN – Medium Dave + Friends (Street Mission Records)
Again featuring erstwhile Noah and the Whale guitarist Fred Abbott, eight years on from the first, featuring the five tracks 2022’s Medium Dave EP, from ...
ANDREW CADIE – Flooding The Ocean (Border Fray Records BFCD002)
You might think that you've heard the name of Andrew Cadie before and you'd be right. Andrew is half of German-based duo Broom Bezzums whose ...
MICHAEL McGOVERN – Thin White Road (Cauldron Music CMCD/LP006)
Thin White Road, the second album from the high-pitched Glaswegian folk singer-songwriter brings a more expansive sound to his fingerpicking with full band arrangements, including ...
Flook celebrate 30 years
After thirty years of writing, discovering, recording and performing tunes, we are proud to present the Flook Tunebook. From Flook! Live! recorded at Sidmouth in ...
GLEN PETERS – Where Do You Come From? (Haven HAVENCD32)
Where Do You Come From, to be released on November 11th, is Glen Peters second album. With the opening lyric to the opening track, ‘My ...
GECKO and LUCY GRUBB – Stage 2, Theatre Royal, Norwich
Powerful performers let down by soulless venue Norwich is full of great music venues doing their utmost to promote and support the impressive and diverse ...
HEATHER AUBREY LLOYD – Panic Room With A View (own label)
Born and based in Baltimore, where she was a reporter, Panic Room With A View featuring multi-instrumentalist Joel Ackerson, is Lloyd’s fourth album (though two ...
Official Folk Album chart – October 2025
On Tuesday 4th November the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
NARAGONIA QUARTET : Nehalennia (Tradfolk Records TRADFO8CD)
There was but one word on the lips of the hardcore at Shrewsbury Folk Festival's Dance Tent, as it began this year, and that was ...
COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS and LUCY GRUBB – live at Norwich Arts Centre
Lucy is centred at home with Courtney Two female singer-songwriters from opposite sides of the Atlantic proved they had more than just music in common ...
The Barr Brothers announce spring UK tour
Let It Hiss isn’t just a collection of ten vital new songs; it’s a document of transformation. The result of a pivotal shift: a pause ...
KYSON POINT – Underwater Sky (The Recording Booth TRBKPCD2501)
The watercolour cover of the debut duo album, Underwater Sky, by David and Kelly Booth (both having contributed to each other’s solo releases when she ...
Copperplate Podcast 311 presented by Alan O’Leary
folking.com brings you the latest podcast from that aficionado of Irish music, the one and only Mr. Alan O’Leary with his regular instalment of Copperplate ...
Martyn Joseph launches his new album
By Joseph - folk legend explodes into town North Norfolk gig goers are in for a rare treat when legendary singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph rides into ...
SERIOUS CHILD – What Lies Beneath (Four Left Feet)
As per the title, the fourth album by Alan Young under his musical alias digs below the surface of the everyday to find those stories ...
MICHAEL BANAHAN – Broken Heart (TC1398)
Michael Banahan, from Roscommon, is well known in Ireland as a solo singer of traditional music and a member of Rig The Jig but mostly ...
THE DREAMING SPIRES – Normal Town (Clubhouse)
The Oxfordshire quintet’s first in a decade, with The Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society as a conceptual touchstone, Normal Town takes its title from a ...
SINGLES BAR 119 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Written but never recorded by Elvis Costello, CHARLIE DORE finally sees ‘Mercury Wings’ take flight on her Still Curious EP, an arrangement that, with her ...
Robin Adams announces new album
In 2018, Robin Adams put out a collection of demo recordings as a limited edition release on Bandcamp. This was to be the blueprint for ...
MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses (Pipe Records PRCD042)
There are, in my humble opinion, a handful of songwriters who stand head and shoulders above all others in this country. One of them is ...
EVE GOODMAN & SERA – Natur (own label)
Periodically, Welsh folk music stages an incursion across Offa's Dyke into England. It's always welcome here and this seems to have been a particularly fruitful ...
Serious Child announces new album and tour
What Lies Beneath is the fourth album from Serious Child aka Alan Young. Hailing from an old wood in West Sussex, Young draws from a ...
RINCÓN & CO – Flowing Waters – a podcast review by Paul Johnson
Here's an interesting mini pod cast audio album review by Paul Johnson. Here he takes you through Guido Rincón's (Ex Shave the monkey) new album ...
Kyson Point announce their debut album
Underwater Sky is the debut album release from Kyson Point (David and Kelly Booth). The beautiful watercolour by Claudia Myatt that graces this album depicts ...
IVAN CAMPO – Zwilight Tone (own label)
For copyright reasons Zwilight Tone isn't actually called The Twilight Zone although that is actually what it is – an album inspired by the band's ...
Two old mates on tour – THE OLD PALS ACT …an audio album review podcast by Paul Johnson
Here's a delightful way to spend a bit of early autumn time in the company of Ralph Mc Tell, Dave Pegg and our very own ...
FISHING 4 COMPLIMENTS – Lost In Good Intentions (own label)
Five years on, the Huddersfield quintet fronted by songwriter Eileen Wattam return with their second album, Lost In Good Intentions, one that sees them expanding ...
MEGSON – Live On Teesside (EDJ Records EDJ057)
To mark their 20th anniversary – where does the time go? - Stu and Debs Hanna return home to record a live album. The title, ...
Official Folk Albums Chart – September 2025
On Tuesday 7th October the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
HOLLY CARTER – Leave Your Mark (own label)
Hailing from Bristol, an acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist (twice winner of AMAUK Instrumentalist of the Year) and one of the UK’s few professional female pedal steel ...
Flook introduce ULD on their winter tour
ULD is the Oslo-based trio fast establishing themselves as one of Norway’s most distinctive new voices. Une Lorentze Onarheim (vocals), Lucia Andreadatter Utnem (piano), and ...
BG McDAID – Folk’ n Trouble (own label – KIN004)
Glasgow singer and songwriter BG McDaid has recently returned to Clydeside, after a period of living in Southern England, and his music career has also ...
Chris Cleverley announces winter EP and tour dates
The Indie-Folk songwriting of Chris Cleverley has been likened to Lo-fi American greats Sufjan Stevens & Elliott Smith (Scottish National Express). This December sees the ...
NIALL McNAMEE – Glass And Mirrors (Wellboy)
An Irish actor of some note, recently having starred in romantic comedy One Night In Bath, homelessness drama Love Without Walls (for which he wrote ...
Stolen From God – new tour
Renowned troubadour Reg Meuross brings his critically acclaimed project Stolen From God back to UK stages this October. Exploring England’s role in the transatlantic trade ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Stafell Sbâr Sain: Tŷ Gwerin (Sain Records SCD2867)
Sain is Wales' oldest record label. Founded in 1969, it specialises in Welsh language and music with a roster of artists including, at various times, ...
CULVERAKE – Unto The Sky (Hebe Music)
A new a capella traditional folk trio comprising Seb Stone, Matt Quinn and Lizzy Hardingham, taking their name from the Sussex dialect for a pigeon ...
MIKEY KENNEY – Tiny Little Light (Penny Fiddle Records PFR2502CD)
Tiny Little Light is Mikey Kenney's fourth studio album and if you've not heard him before you may be in for a big surprise. Mikey ...
KATIE SPENCER – What Love Is (Lightning Records LR-002)
Katie Spencer is a prodigious talent, a gifted singer and songwriter with a much more than capable hand on her instrument of choice, the guitar ...
SINGLES BAR 118 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Playing guitar and digeridoo, THE PELICAN BABIES are Standish-based acoustic folk-blues duo Lea Nixon and Mark Connelly, their new self-released three-track EP being Judas Goats ...
NINEBARROW – The Hour Of The Blackbird (Winding Track 9BTHOTB)
Bringing a spin to the familiar best of album, Dorset close harmony duo Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere, British folk’s answer to Simon & Garfunkel, ...
BROWN BOOTS BOOGIE BAND – Dancing Boots (own label)
I know I am not alone in loving the music for dancing, despite not having a dancing bone in my body, the sedentary shake a ...
KYLE CAREY – The Last Bough (Americelta Records ACR106)
Her music pretty much defined by the name of her record label (to which she returns after a brief sojourn on Riverboat), Vermont-based Carey calls ...
JANA VARGA – Chicory (own label)
Slovak-born and London-based, Varga’s debut full length album, Foreigner Face, was, as the title suggests, rooted in the emigrant experience. The follow-up, Chicory, while still ...
Cousins & Willoughby: The Bridge to be reissued
The Bridge from Cousins & Willoughby will be released on Friday 28th November on digipak CD and digital via Witchwood Records, distributed by RSK Entertainment. A ...
The Paper Kites announce new album
Beloved alternative folk band The Paper Kites have announced their seventh studio album, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, arriving on January 23rd via Nettwerk ...
METAGAMA ENSEMBLE – Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey (Wee Studio Records WSMETA001)
Perhaps a little history first. SS Metagama was launched in 1914 and, like many other vessels, did duty as a troop ship. In 1923 she ...
Chopper to tour in November
Former Oysterband man Ray Cooper is set to tour the UK in November. Ray won awards with the band and was nominated by Fatea in ...
HANNAH BRINE – Blue Sky Now
Hannah Brine released Blue Sky Now, her debut album, in late June. Brine moved up from London to Derbyshire a couple of years ago and, ...
DUG – Have At It! (Claddagh Records 7849344 )
The album named from a family text message involving a photo of a will during Covid, DUG comprise New York based Scottish ex-pat Lorkin O’Reilly ...
ROBB JOHNSON – The Optimist Hotel (Irregular Records IRR132)
Some years ago I made the mistake of asking Robb Johnson how many songs he'd written. There is no doubt that Robb is a prolific ...
ANNA LING – Light (own label)
Mythopoetic neo-choral alt-folk is how Devon based singer and songwriter Anna Ling describes her music. An intriguing description, and if you want to find out ...
RAGS ROSENBERG – Song Of The Bricoleur (Coyote Gulch Records)
Based in California, the weathered, husky-voiced 78-year-old Rosenberg (named Phillip, his musical soubriquet comes from WB Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop of the heart”) ...
Megson announce live album and tour
Over their twenty year career Megson, aka Debbie & Stu Hanna, have established themselves as one of the most engaging acts on the British Folk ...
JOHN McCUTCHEON – Long Journey Home (Appalsongs AS2025)
It’s a century since an iconic fiddle contest was held in Mountain City, a small Appalachian town in Tennessee, bringing together some of the era’s ...
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage announce new album and tour dates
Critically acclaimed UK folk duo Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage return with their 5th full length album, The Strangers’ Share, a record centred on dreams ...
FAERIE FOLK – Faerie Folk (Tree Temple Music)
Faerie Folk are a band from Portland, Oregon who play Irish and Scandinavian music. They were formed by pianist and composer Troll Hart and are ...
JOHNSON AND FINNEMORE- Find A Love That Brings You Home (Gulf Coast Records!)
Dan Finnemore is the longtime frontman with Birmingham outfit Swampmeat Family Band while Stewart Johnson is the lap steel legend who first came to notice ...
We made it – the Cropredy magic continues – our very own Paul Johnson reviews Cropredy Festival 2025
Hi all - so following my Cropredy 2025 preview that we posted here earlier this year... in which we spoke to Dave Pegg and Simon ...
SINGLES BAR 117 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Is it an EP? Is it a mini-album? Does it actually matter? We'll go with the former. So Oddy Locks is a six track EP ...
JOHN REED – A Proliferation Of Pointlessness (own label)
Originally conceived as an album bemoaning the difficulties of trying to get his music noticed, Reed expanded the scope of A Proliferation Of Pointlessness for ...
FOLKEAST, Sotterley Estate, Suffolk
Happy in its new home on the Sotterley Estate near Beccles, FolkEast 2025 proved as all-singing, all-dancing and all-everything as it has always been, just ...
WICKHAM FESTIVAL WEEKEND Thursday 31st July – 3rd August 2025 inc
After a steady drive from the Devon/Cornwall border in the Folkmobile, I arrived in Hampshire on the 28th July, A great line up over the ...
SUSY WALL – Black Lights (own label)
Funded by Arts Council England and produced by Chris Pepper, Wall’s second album is a homage to her adopted Black Country home and a celebration ...
VARIOUS – When Will They Ever Learn: A Story Of U.S. Folk Music- 1963-1969 (Cherry Red/Strawberry CR4JAMBX47)
Following on from Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s US Folk Rock Explosion, When Will They Ever Learn is an even more extensive 4-CD collection of ...
Amit Dattani announces second album and tour dates
Described as a ‘master musician’ (Blues Matters), Amit Dattani, a distinctive voice in the folk scene releases his much anticipated second album,Wrong Kind Of One ...
The Destroyers announce new album
To celebrate 20 years of continuous voyage through clubs and festivals in the UK and beyond, The Destroyers have captured a snapshot of their latest ...
Woody Guthrie’s final recordings released this week
Home recordings by the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Songwriters Hall of Famer, International Folk Music Award Lifetime Achievement honoree, and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement ...
Mike Reid & Joe Henry announce new album
Beloved GRAMMY award-winning singer songwriters Mike Reid and Joe Henry today confirm a new collaborative album, Life & Time, set for release September 5 on ...
LIZ WALL – The Knight (own label)
Accompanied by co-producer Adam Ellis on bass, electric guitar, percussion and ukulele bass, the Ashby De La Zouch-based singer-songwriter makes her debut with The Knight, ...
SONS OF SEVILLA – Street Light Moon (Ubiquity)
I have a thing about bands I've never heard of and know little, if anything, about. It's one of the joys of reviewing and I've ...
Annie Keating – UK tour and live album
Annie Keating is playing a UK tour from late September to mid October in support of a new live album that will be available on ...
JOHN DEW – Na Caismeachdan (own label)
Sometimes music can become too specialised for its own good and that could be said of composer/piper/whistle player John Dew. His third studio album, Na ...
FAIRPORT CONVENTION: Gladys’ Leap (40th Anniversary reissue)
Talking Elephant Records / Proper Music Distribution *** Remastered + extensive booklet *** August 4th1985 saw the release of the first Fairport Convention studio album ...
The official folk album chart for July 2025
On Tuesday 5th August the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
MINOR GOLD – Way To The Sun (MGM)
Music for lazing in the sun, appropriately recorded in California, joined by drummer Austin Beede with producer Dan Horne on bass and pedal steel Canadian/Australian ...
THE SWAPS – Fast Train (Stingo Records)
Based in Leamington Spa where The Swaps host a monthly blues club at Temperance, Fast Train is the trio’s debut studio album following the release ...
SARAH-JANE SUMMERS & JUHANI SILVOLA – How To Raise The Wind (Eighth Nerve 8nerve015)
More Hibernian/Scandinavian fusion from two of the finest exponents of the genre. How To Raise The Wind contains seven original compositions, atmospheric pieces, all. The ...
KINGS HEATHENS – Of Wind And Tide (own label)
Following on from last year’s debut album, Old Tall Stories, Birmingham (Kings Heath actually) duo Evan C Ritchie and David Fisher, return with Of Wind ...
SINGLES BAR 116 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Produced by and featuring Dan Whitehouse and Peter Millson with Harriet Harkum on backing vocals, Wolverhampton’s ANGELLA CORINNA releases her second EP, Nature’s End (Messenger ...
KEEPING IT LIVE: Ely Folk Festival 2025
Ely Folk Festival is, above all, great fun. I went for the second year running. For the second year running I chose it in preference ...
THE PLEASURES – Enemy Of My Enemy (Über Savvy Music/MGM)
The Pleasures are “Aussie musical playmates” Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan, supported by Brad Bergen and Damian Cafarella on drums and bass respectively. Enemy Of ...
THE KAHUNAS – Go! (own label)
In the way a fiddle tends to flag folk music to the casual observer, Exmoor based the Kahunas are a folk band in much the ...
JIM BORROWS – Carry Me Back To My Old Front Door (own label JB202401)
Jim Borrows has played piano for his own entertainment for many years but only now has he released his debut album. Having friends like James ...
Hannah Brine announces debut album and tour dates
Singer-songwriter Hannah Brine is proud to present her new album Blue Sky Now, independently released in June 2025. While rooted in modern jazz sensibilities, Blue ...
Steeleye Span celebrate anniversary with new album and tour
Together for fifty-six years now, Steeleye Span changed the face of folk music forever by taking it into the world of gold discs and international ...
WHYTE NOISE – What We Love To Do (own label)
Whyte Noise are a father and son duo, Gordon and Ciaran Whyte from Paisley and their debut album, What We Love To Do, is sort ...
IAN F. BALL – Better Late Than Never (own label)
Based in Oldham, the dusty-voiced Ball has been knocking around the folk circuit for some 50 years, not to mention taking to the main stage ...
Summer comes rolling around for Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps
Following the successful reissue of their former band’s 1987 album, Cause For Complaint Remastered & Expanded ,Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps are pleased to announce ...
Cecil sharp House announces its autumn program
This autumn, London’s home of folk music welcomes an eclectic programme of traditional and contemporary acts spanning the breadth of folk traditions – from English ...
THE NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL – What a delightful weekend! Paul Johnson reviews the festival and interviews the stars.
Our very own master of all things audio...Paul Johnson talks to....Phil Beer - Honey and the bear - Guido Rincon - The Young'uns.....and the legend ...
DARKNESS TO LIGHT – THE RECORDINGS 2004 TO 2006 – Judy Dyble (Cherry Red Records)
Judy Dyble is something of a folk legend because of her early time in Fairport Convention. She was born in 1949 and by 1969 she ...
Grace Will Lead Me Home on tour
A collaboration between Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Jon Bickley, released in 2024 following the 250th anniversary of ‘Amazing Grace’ and charting these of enslavement ...
GRACE STEWART-SKINNER – Auchies Spikkin’ Auchie (own label GSS001)
Speaking of trends, which I was, here is further evidence of another, most prevalent in Scotland but also by other artists living on the margins ...
JOHN WARD – Songs Like An Old Friend (own label IONCD13)
Based in East Anglia, both singer-songwriter and author, Songs Like An Old Friend is Ward’s 10th album, one which is predominantly acoustic and embraces such ...
ÀIRDAN – Cosmic (own label)
I think I’m detecting a trend here. A few years ago Scottish instrumental music was all massed pipes and thundering drums, or so it seemed ...
Sheelanagig mark 20th anniversary – new album and tour
Sheelanagig Celebrate 20 Years of Folk Sorcery with New Album - St Congar’s Walking Stick - and UK Dates (listed below) 2025 marks twenty years of ...
DROPKICK MURPHYS – For The People (Dummy Luck Records DLM005CD)
Sporting a black rose on the cover, symbolising change, renewal, rebirth, courage, confidence and power, For The People, their thirteenth studio album finds the Massachusetts ...
Copperplate podcast 307 presented by Alan O’Leary
folking.com brings you the latest podcast from that aficionado of Irish music, the one and only Mr. Alan O’Leary with his regular monthly instalment of ...
FATE THE JUGGLER – Godless Blues (own label)
Fate The Juggler first came to our attention back in 2016 and have been popping around ever since. It started for us with their EP, ...
GEORGE BOOMSMA – The Promise Of Spring ‘Live’ (Faber Alt)
The Promise Of Spring Live is a first anniversary version of George Boomsma’s critically acclaimed The Promise Of Spring acoustic album, although this latest edition ...
KEMP HARRIS – The America Chronicles (Kemp Harris Music)
Black and gay, life in America for Harris was never going to be easy. Under the current administration, it’s even more difficult. Which is pretty ...
SINGLES BAR 115 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Having self-released Part A of their two EPS, COULDN’T BE HAPPIERS - Jodi Hildebran and Jordan Crosby Lee - now combine that with Part B ...
KAI CROWE-GETTY – The Wreckage (own label)
The Wreckage, the debut solo album by the frontman of Virginia rock outfit Lord Nelson (no, me neither) is custom built for those who can’t ...
JIM CAUSLEY – The Georgic (Hrõc Music HROC10)
If you have a theme or a project to develop and if it involves the west country then Jim Causley is your man. Jim has ...
Home Service to tour in July
Long-standing folk-rock band Home Service are playing a 'Live Transmission' tour across the UK in July. Four decades after taking the English folk scene by ...
Sarah McQuaid announces summer tour
Sarah McQuaid has a busy summer planned ahead of her August-September UK tour – and new music to share As she prepares for her August-September ...
KEEPING IT LIVE: Retford Book Festival – Tom Kitching and Marit Fäit
Keeping It Live is the title of a set of occasional reviews based on, err… , live music. So why Retford Book Festival on the ...
CLEMENTINE LOVELL – Westbound (own label CLWESTBOUND2025)
Promotional material, by its nature, shouldn’t always be taken too literally. So, when I read promotional material for Clementine Lovell’s debut album, Westbound, comparing her ...
PETER & JANE – The Traveller’s Cloak (own label)
Peter & Jane are a duo from East Anglia and The Traveller’s Cloak would appear to be their third album. Using their given names gives ...
Manchester Folk Festival announces first 2026 lineup reveal featuring Seth Lakeman, Fairport Convention, The Young’uns, Angeline Morrison, Shovel Dance Collective and more
Following its biggest spring event to date, Manchester Folk Festival is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated return from Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st March ...
GIANNI TBAY’S BLUES AGAINST YOUTH – The Blues Against Youth (EFT088)
Gianni Tbay is Turin-based and variously described as troubadour, song-crafter and slide guitar master. The Blues Against Youth is his seventh full-length album. Given the ...
MARINA FLORANCE – Shadows (own label)
Her fifth album, Shadows, comprising four studio tracks with fiddle and bass and mandolin, one live, two spoken-word and one mix of spoken-word and vocals, ...
LUNATRAKTORS – Quilting Points: Invitations and Open Calls 2019-2025 (Broken Folk Records)
Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur can never be considered conventional as a study of the 18 panel fold out cover of Lunatraktors’ will confirm ...
Fairport Convention announce their winter tour
Ahead of their triumphant return to the fields of a sold-out Cropredy Convention this August, legendary British Folk-Rockers - Fairport Convention - announce dates for ...
BLIND RIVER SCARE – Flashbacks And Polaroids (Creosote Records, CR606CD)
Four years on from The Mileage Made, South Wales-based Tim Manning returns with his sixth Americana-veined album, working in a four piece format with Jem ...
Gwenno announces new album and tour dates
43 years into her life, Gwenno Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop ...
ODETTE MICHELL – The Queen Of The Lowlands (Talking Elephant TECD507)
While she’s featured on disc as part of Michell, Pfeiffer and Kulesh, it’s been five years since the Yorkshire-born, Cambridge-based singer-songwriter released her well-received debut ...
SIMON SCARDANELLI – Underneath The Singing Tree (Resonator Records RES0117)
Born in London and based in Brittany, Underneath The Singing Tree is Scardanelli’s ninth solo album and, a cocktail of heady pop, folk and jazz, one ...
JON PALMER ACOUSTIC BAND – Light Goes Low (Splid Records SPLIDCD35)
I should start by thanking Jon for using my description of his Acoustic Band on his publicity since his previous album. A bit of buttering ...
Penguin Café – Tapestry’s final headline act
Tapestry, the vibrant free festival set on England’s south coast at Westquay in Southampton is excited to announce its final headline act: Penguin Café, who ...
SAM KELLY – Dreamers Dawn (Navigator, NAVIGATOR109 )
Joined by a stellar Lost Boys line-up of Jamie Francis on banjo, guitars, octave mandolin and bass, cellist Graham Coe, Evan Carson on percussion, accordionist ...
The Official Folk Albums chart – May 2025
On Tuesday 3rd June the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
POI ROGERS – Twilight Blues (own label)
From Santa Cruz, Gerard Egan doubling on acoustic guitar and triple neck steel and Carolyn Sills on stand-up bass, the punningly named duo channel 50s ...
DONALD W.G. LINDSAY – Two Boats Under The Moon (own label DL001 though Birnam)
A name that maybe means more in the arcane world of bagpipe makers than to those who enjoy their sound, Lindsay is the inventor of ...
THE BOOK OF MOONS – Strange & Wylde Majick (own label)
Taking their name from the seventeenth century Bedlam ballad “Tom o' Bedlam’ and referencing an ancient book of strange and wylde magick) , Norfolk duo ...
SINGLES BAR 114 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Only available on Bandcamp for a limited time with all proceeds going to The Belonging Fund to benefit Nashville's immigrant community, The Belonging EP Vol. 1 ...
FREYA RAE – Divergence (Mere Cat Records – MCRCD001
In 2020, when many of us were looking for challenges to get us through lock down, Freya Rae set herself a target of writing a ...
HOUSE ABOVE THE SUN – Restless Idealist (own label)
House Above The Sun are a London based quintet who describe themselves as Americana Indie Rock, which covers quite a few bases. Restless Idealist is ...
Queer Folk Festival 2025 at Cecil Sharp House
On Saturday 7 June, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and Queer Folk present the inaugural Queer Folk Festival: an unforgettable day of music, ...
MÀIRI MACMILLAN – Glaschu: Songs To A City (own label MMM2CD)
There is a trend for artists and songwriters to write about their surroundings; either the places where they were brought up or the places where ...
DANNY HORN & THE SHARED MYTHS – The Death Of Lucy (own label)
The Death Of Lucy is the third album by Danny Horn & The Shared Myths. It will be released on June 6th. It’s a fun ...
RUPERT WATES – Father To The Man (Bite Music BR12119)
Depicting the journey from childhood, through manhood to fatherhood, featuring just vocals, guitar and double bass, all twelve songs on Father To The Man (all ...
MIKE & KATE TURNBULL – Folklore (own label)
Mike and Kate Turnbull also operate under the name Briar:Bramble which can be confusing when both are printed on the album – I chose the ...
MARTIN CARTHY – Transform Me Then Into A Fish (HemHem Records)
Martin Carthy is 84 today, the day that Transform Me Then Into A Fish is released. I first heard him live in 1968 or 69 ...
Mark Harrison’s gig news
Hello everyone, Lots of shows coming up, all really good places, all parts of the country and France too. They're not like anything else you ...
Lambstock announces this year’s line-up
The Lamb Public House, Surbiton, London, has announced the running order for this year’s Lambstock. For the 9th year running, the Lamb will host the ...
THE GENTLE GOOD – Elan (Bubblewrap Records BWR080CD)
The previous album by Gareth Bonello as The Gentle Good, Galargan, was a pared back acoustic affair using old songs from The National Library of ...
VINNY PECULIAR – Things Too Long Left Unsaid (Shadrack and Duxbury, SADCD025)
Over the course of the ten years and five albums between 2011 and 2021, Alan Wilkes amassed a growing pile of songs which, for whatever ...
Andy White : live album and tour dates
Andy White's forthcoming new live album The Night Is Approaching Though Some Would Say It Was Morning is due for release May 30th, alongside an UK with shows ...
Levellers announce 30th anniversary Zeitgeist release and tour
Widely acclaimed British band the Levellers celebrate the 30th anniversary of their chart-topping album Zeitgeist. Set for release on November 7th via Warner Music, the ...
NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL 2025
Hi Paul Johnson here…...well…. THAT WARM, FAMILIAR, COMFY, FRIENDLY SUMMERTIME FEELING.... IS HERE AGAIN THE SUN IS OUT THE FLOWERS ARE OUTTHE FIELDS ARE GREEN AND ...
TRIP – In Terra’s Keep (own label)
In Terra’s Keep is the second album by Glasgow six-piece Trip following their 2022 debut, A Drop For Neptune. They base their sound on the ...
The Gentle Good – new album
Written in an off-grid cottage during a year- long residency in the Cambrian Mountains, The Gentle Good’s new album Elan is a psychedelic portrait of ...
SUE HARDING – The World (own label)
The World is Sue Harding’s third solo album and the word on the street is that it’s caused some surprise. Reviewing the single, ‘Barflies’, I ...
MARK RADCLIFFE & DAVID BOARDMAN – Hearsay & Heresy (Talking Elephant TECD509)
You all know the name of Mark Radcliffe but David Boardman may not be so familiar. Mark and David are both members of, and principal ...
DAPHNE’S FLIGHT – Favourable Light (Fat Cat CFATCD056)
Daphne’s Flight launched in 1995 and have just released their fifth album. Favourable Light is the second with the current line-up of Chris While, Julie ...
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage announce new album.
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are set to announce a new album, due for release in Autumn 2025. Hot on the heels of 2024's In The Dark We ...
VIDEO WALL 28
We seem to have neglected our multi-screen surround sound viewing suite in the basement of Folking Towers of late. I think someone lost the key ...
PATCH & THE GIANT – Fragments (Folkroom Records)
Their first new material since 2017, Patch & The Giant still line-up as singer Luke Owen on acoustic guitar, Angie Rance on digital accordion, trumpet, ...
Josienne Clarke announces new album
Critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Josienne Clarke announces her raw and intimate new album Far From Nowhere, due out this autumn via Corduroy Punk ...
The Official Folk Album chart -April 2025
On Tuesday 6th May the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
PAUL ARMFIELD – Between the Covers (own label PSA004)
Lesson learnt. Don’t judge a book by its cover and don't judge an album by its title. I was expecting Between The Covers; 9 Songs ...
Lunatraktors announce new album and tour dates
On tour now, Clair and Carli say: “We’re one week into the tour and feeling so much emotion from our audiences. A lot of laughing, ...
MERRY HELL – Rising Of The Bold (Merry Hell Music MHMCD00125)
A new Merry Hell album is something always eagerly anticipated at Folking Towers, and Rising Of The Bold, the latest from our semi-regular “Best Live ...
IONA LANE – Swilkie (own label ILR003CD)
From the Highlands and written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, te Isle of Mull and Sanday and recorded in a boathouse on ...
CHRISTINA ALDEN & ALEX PATTERSON – Safe Travels (own label)
After a gap of four years since their Hunter debut, accompanied by John Parker on double bass, the couple return with an album that, per ...
SCOTTISH FIDDLE ORCHESTRA – Sleeping Warrior (own label SFOCD1001)
If I’ve done my sums correctly there are one hundred and eighteen members of The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra including flautists, pipers, accordion players and percussionists ...
MARK MULHOLLAND – Fighting With Your Shadow (Ports Of Call Music POCM2501CD)
From Edinburgh and now based in France, Mulholland has had a decidedly eclectic career, variously working with Captain Sensible, Toumani Diabaté and Damon Albarn. Fighting ...
SINGLES BAR 113 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
The Frog, The Mouse, The Ship, The Cabin Boy is a new 100 copies limited edition EP (FreakFolk) from the endearingly and uniquely breathily voiced ...
THE SOUND OF THE SIRENS – The Other Me (own label)
The fourth album by Exeter-based duo Abbe Wood and Hannah Walker takes their acoustic blend of folk and pop to the next level with a ...
STOUT – Make Way (own label)
Stout are a German duo: Simon Schere and Mario Kuzyna (who bears a disturbing resemblance to Sid Kipper). Both sing and play guitar while Simon ...
THE BEAUTIFUL FAILURES – Cowboys In Tangier
Cowboys in Tangier was recorded in summer 2024 but is only recently released. It’s worth the wait – there’s some neat playing and clever song ...
Edinburgh Tradfest begins next weekend
A packed programme of music, film and storytelling kicks off Edinburgh Tradfest next weekend (2nd to 12th May) thanks to continued support from The National ...
Green Diesel announce their new album
Following their critically-acclaimed 2021 album, After Comes The Dark, which saw Green Diesel pick up a slew of enthusiastic reviews for what became their best-selling ...
Mary Chapin Carpenter announces new album
Five times Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter will release her anticipated new album Personal History on June 6 via Lambent Light/Thirty ...
KATE RUSBY – When They All Looked Up (Pure PRCD80)
Her 23rd album and her first non-seasonal release in six years, When They All Looked Up mixes her settings of traditional songs as well as ...
BEAU – Palace Of Light (Cherry Red BEAUPOL1)
With near thirty albums to his name, it’s fair to say that as long as there’s self-important self-interested arseholes, social iniquities, political buffoons and popular ...
TRACK DOGS – Tracks Laid, Tracks Covered (Mondegreen MGR1125)
Based in Spain with two Irishmen (frontman Garrett Wall and bassist Dave Mooney), an Englishman (trumpeter Howard Brown) and an American (Robbie K. Jones on ...
DAVID COLLINS – Sundown (own label)
Once a semi-finalist in Young Folk Musician Of The Year, David Collins returns to music after a break with his debut album, Sundown. David is ...
KING’S GAMBIT – The Elder And The Lost Bet (own label GA250608)
King’s Gambit are a seven-piece band from Northampton who play, I think we are obliged to say, folk-rock. The songs are written by Chris Startup ...
MILTON HIDE – Bungaroosh (Howdys Records)
The title of Jo Church and Jim Tipler’s new album, Bungaroosh, comes from a building trade term referring to the slapdash way in which walls ...
STEVE TILSTON – Last Call Tour – Exeter Folk Club, Friday 11th April 2025
An excellent evening that was enjoyed by all who had come to see highly acclaimed and award-winning singer/songwriter, and consummate guitarist Steve Tilston magically weaving ...
Gate To Southwell Festival celebrates its 18th birthday
Now established as one of the UK’s best music events, Nottinghamshire’s Gate to Southwell Festival will celebrate its 18th birthday this summer. Having been shortlisted ...
TERENCE BLACKER – Misfits’ Jamboree (own label TB006)
Terence Blacker has been, at various times, a writer, journalist and songwriter. More recently he has concentrated on his music and is about to release ...
GIGSPANNER BIG BAND – Turnstone (own label GSCD009)
I have to make a confession. When Peter Knight unveiled the Big Band I was somewhat less than whelmed. I was so in thrall to ...
SHEILA K CAMERON – On Sanity’s Shore (Glalell – SKC1711CD)
Whatever you’ve been listening to this year, I doubt that you’ll have heard anything quite like On Sanity’s Shore. Sheila K. Cameron – or SKC ...
THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS – The Wind Will Change Again (Inside Edge IER006)
The Wind Will Change Again is the latest release from The Twangtown Paramours. The duo are Mike T Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer and describe it ...
The Official Folk Album Chart – March 2025
On Tuesday 8th April the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
THE WILDWOODS – Dear Meadowlark (own label)
Comprising husband and wife guitarist and songwriter Noah and Chloe Gose on violin and lead vocals alongside best friend bassist Andrew Vaggalis, Dear Meadowlark is ...
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