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).
MR PLOW – At One With Nature (Monk Basket Records Monk 5)
At One With Nature is released on September 11th, twelve years since Mr Plow’s last album. The band are from Leicestershire, have recorded for Radio ...
SHOOGLENIFTY – Stamina Island (own label SHOOGLE20260)
It’s been a long time since I heard any Shooglenifty which is very wrong of me but Stamina Island just hit the doormat. The revised ...
Sarah McQuaid continues her 2026 tour
With her new recording and rehearsal studio nearing completion, Sarah McQuaid is once again heading out on the road — this time for a 9-week, ...
BONFIRE RADICALS – Spaghetti Junction (own label BR04)
Titled for the iconic and notoriously complex Birmingham landmark, the hometown sextet are in fine fettle for Spaghetti Junction, their third full-length self-released album with ...
The Brothers Gillespie announce new album
Kingfisher is the forthcoming album from Northumbrian alternative folk troubadours The Brothers Gillespie. It’s due to be released on the 10th October 2026 with a ...
EWAN MACINTYRE/HERDING CATS – On These Islands We Sing (Broken Car Records)
More Hebridean folk? Well, actually, not quite, even if the instrumentation might begin to suggest that sort of flow. No, this is the first of ...
JASON McNIFF – Ten Blue Songs
Jason McNiff’s tenth album, Ten Blue Songs, was released this week and reflects a life well lived in the world of songs and live music. Dues ...
MY GIRL THE RIVER – Manifest Good Things (Super Tiny Records)
Backed by drummer Chris Pepper, husband Joe Hughes on bass and daughter Rue on harmonies along with a smattering of guest contributions, the first to ...
SINGLES BAR 128 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Here is another new name for us. THE TERN formed in London in 2025 as a duo of Finlay Glen and Gabriel Pearcey. Success spurred ...
SPELL SONGS – In Thin Air (Hudson)
Again commissioned by the Folk by the Oak Festival, In Thin Air is the third collective project by Kris Drever, Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, pianist ...
BAP KENNEDY – Above All, Love (Lonely Street Discs LSD1910)
The older brother of Brian Kennedy, born in Belfast as Martin Christopher Kennedy, Bap first found fame as frontman with Energy Orchard before embarking on ...
Bungay Folk Festival returns for its fourth year
The Bungay Folk Festival returns for its third year this September 3rd to 6th and it is shaping up to be the biggest, boldest and ...
Blair Dunlop announces new solo album
Award-winning singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop will release his sixth studio album, What Still Survives, on 30 October 2026 via Navigator Records. Produced by acclaimed producer Ian Grimble (Mumford & Sons, Travis, Bear's ...
M G BOULTER & JENNY STURGEON – Wild Convenor (Hudson)
Though they’ve been pen pals since 2021, she in Shetland, he in Southend-On-Sea, and she sang backing on a track on his most recent solo ...
Bonfire Radicals announce their third album
Bonfire Radicals, the "exhilarating and exuberant" (Songlines ★★★★) six-piece [un]traditional folk band, release their third album, Spaghetti Junction, this September. Named after Birmingham's most notorious ...
WICKHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL – day four
Up bright and early for sadly the last day of this fabulous festival. The Tuneless Choir was the first act we saw quite intrigued on ...
WICKHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL – Day 3
As I have been struggling with a really painful left foot for a while, I had to come into the festival a little later and ...
WICKHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026 – day two
Early start for the first full day of the Festival, picnic packed and off we go! As we had our wrist bands we sailed into ...
KEEPING IT LIVE – The Folklincs Festival 2026
The Folklincs Folk Festival was held in Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, in July 2026. Barton isn’t a well-known tourist centre, but it could be – the Humber ...
ROBB JOHNSON – Souvenir (Irregular Records IRR134)
It’s virtually impossible to keep up with Robb Johnson. Today not one but two new CDs landed on the doormat. Already available is Souvenir, recorded ...
13‑Live – New album from The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams announces the release of 13‑Live, a vibrant new live album born from the band’s November 23, 2024 performance at WAMC Radio in ...
Wickham Music Festival 2026 30th July – 2nd August 2026. Review Day One
What an absolutely fabulous festival set on the outskirts of the ancient town of Wickham in the beautiful county of Hampshire. Sunshine all the way ...
Official folk album chart – July 2026
On Tuesday 4th August the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the July reporting period in ...
ALAN CATTON – Traditions & Tales (own label)
The last time we heard from Alan Catton was in 2019 so I had to remind myself about him. A brief summary: Alan is the ...
DAVID CARROLL AND FRIENDS – Bold Reynold Free! (Talking Elephant TEC529)
Dave Carroll and Friends: Dave Oberle, Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor, Chris Leslie and Lucy Cooper – not a bad pick-up band. Bold Reynold Free! is, ...
Eliza Carthy and the Restitution – new album announced
Eiiza Carthy MBE has been the multi award-winning irreverent, passionate, difficult face of English folk punk and traditional music since the early 1990s. Born into ...
Broadstairs Folk Week – latest news
Broadstairs Folk Week, 7–14 August 2026, Broadstairs, Kent Last summer, in its 60th year, Broadstairs Folk Week was named one of the best places to ...
Richard Thompson announces new album and tour dates
Richard Thompson will release his 20th Studio Album, Hippies, Thugs And Heroes on October 16 2026 via New West Records. The twelve-track set was produced ...
SINGLES BAR 126 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
WOMEN OF FOLK are four fine voices: Lizzie Hardingham, Linda Moylan, Louise Hatch and Rebecca Mileham. Their new EP is Live At The Water Rats, ...
LOOKING AHEAD TO WICKHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
Thursday July 30th – Sunday August 2nd, 2026 Campie and the Folkmobile are getting ready for its annual visit to Wickham Music Festival and what ...
LANCE COWAN – The Air That You Breathe (Lantzapalooza Muzik)
Lance Cowan releases The Air That You Breathe on July 24th. It’s his third album since 2024 and it’s a classy album – eleven songs, ...
The Chartists – original album to be reissued
In September the original Chartists' album (above is what they looked like back then) will be reissued in remastered and expanded form. Folking has received ...
ADY JOHNSON– Under Gainsborough Skies (Little Robin Records ROBINCD02)
A mood of wistfulness and gentle sadness pervades Under Gainsborough Skies, the third album from Suffolk born, Colchester based singer-songwriter, Ady Johnson. The melodies are ...
WAVE OF THE FLOOD – FortyFive (WOTFCC01)
There are many things that can attract an eye to a new album, and I do mean eye rather than ear, that all too often ...
Another great and scorching year at THE NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL
Our man on the scene (and as Gerry Colvin puts it 'Folk family') Paul Johnson reviews his sunny and hot 2026 visit to the New ...
Strawbs to release live version of Grave New World
In marking the anniversary of the death of David Cousins on 13 July 2025, Witchwood Records is absolutely delighted to announce the release of the ...
PHIL ODGERS & JOHN KETTLE – The War Is Over, The Songs Of Phil Ochs, Vol.2 (Vinyl Star Records VSRCD020)
It is a sort of rule that second volumes of anything rarely rise to the same standard of the first. But there are always exceptions, ...
Folk Album chart – June 2026
On Tuesday 7th July the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the June reporting period in ...
JONATHAN PEARSON AND ALEX BARRASS – A Trip To Stocksfield (own label)
Jonathan and Alex are award-winning exponents of the Northumbrian small pipes. Jonathan also plays mandocello and melodeon and, remarkably, only took up the pipes three ...
SINGLES BAR 125 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
ROBERTA SMITH makes a speedy return with a new EP, Humdrum Five, a set of five old and new songs recorded, by and large, in ...
PAUL McCLURE – The Good And The Bad Of It (Bex-Pop BP005CD)
The Good And The Bad Of It is Paul's first studio album since 2019, following on from sparse lockdown EP Aardvark, the warm-voiced self-styled Rutland ...
Copperplate Podcast 319 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 ...
JUDE EDWIN-SCOTT – Birdsong (Bellyheaed 9 BH09CD10)
Jude Edwin-Scott is a new name to me which is a surprise as this is something like his tenth album plus a couple of EPs ...
VARIOUS – Bring It On Home (APM Records APMR034)
In the beginning was the voice and then came the acoustic guitar and thus was “modern” folk/roots music begotten. Its heyday was in the 1930s, ...
COLIN STEELE – Stramash II (Gadgemo GAD 003CD)
It’s hard to characterise Colin Steele. Depending on where you stand he’s either a jazzman who is far too folky or a folk-influenced composer who ...
CHEERY ODIN – The Folli Up
If you listened to the first Cheery Odin album, you’ll know what to expect, “A recording project to celebrate and recall the auld Hawick tongue, ...
THE VILLAGE – The Hollow Hills (own label)
The Village, aka Phil Matthews, has made regular appearances in these pages. Now, with The Hollow Hills he dedicates a whole album to the sort ...
CAROLINE KEANE – Rise (own label)
There is a large number of musicians who contributed to Rise but the name on the front is that of concertina player Caroline Keane from ...
THE DOVETAIL TRIO – Bold Champions (own label)
Being of the old git persuasion, I’m familiar with a majority of the songs on Bold Champions. Does that spoil my enjoyment of the record ...
JON LOOMES – Dust In The Sun (Talking Cat Recordings TCCD 2601)
In a small Welsh village in the summer of 1976, Jon Loomes recorded what was intended as one last stab, an uncompromising folk record made ...
SAM DRAISEY – Hypernormalisation (own label)
What can we say about Sam Draisey? Now something of a veteran, he’s a successor to the young Billy Bragg – a clever songwriter with ...
Copperplate Podcast 318
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 ...
KARINE POLWART & PIPPA MURPHY with DAVE MILLIGAN – Windblown (Hudson HUD066)
Devised as a chamber folk stage production telling the story of a 200-year-old Sabal palm brought from Bermuda to Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden in the early 1800s, ...
JUNIPER – Halfway Home (JUNCD04)
Juniper hail from Birmingham, UK, but tend toward more the Celtic Fringes for their inspiration. This is, broadly, folk music but not as you might ...
ADAM CLARK – Folk & Fold (own label)
Multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Adam Clark seems to have it all. Bred and born in Norwich, in Folk & Fold he has produced what he ...
SAM CARTER – Sings Nic Jones: Live At Celtic Connections (Captain Records CAP018)
The cover tells you pretty much all you need to know. I always think that artists should approach Nic Jones’ back catalogue with care. Nic, ...
CLEMENTINE LOVELL – Permutations (own label CLPERMUTATIONS2026)
Clementine Lovell hit the ground running with début album Westbound in 2025 winning a number of awards on the way. For the second album, Permutations, ...
THE GATHERING QUARTET – The Gathering Quartet (own label)
The idea of music as force for peace, love and understanding isn’t new but The Gathering Quartet have explicitly put it into practice on their ...
BITY BOOKER – There’s No Song About A Stone (own label)
Recorded at home over the course of three years on a four-track tape machine, following two EPs and a limited edition album, There’s No Song ...
DAN WALSH – At The Station (Rooksmere Records RRCD121)
Everybody’s favourite banjo player (dissenting opinions may leave now), Dan Walsh, has released his first album of contemporary material for seven years – mostly original ...
PHIL JONES – Snow Along The Line (own label)
Having written the treatment for what would become Idle Women: The Musical, the story of women who worked on England’s canal boats during the second ...
KRIS DREVER – Doing This For Love (The North Sound NOSOR001CD)
Kris Drever’s new album is not quite what I expected. After all, Lau is noted for being the loudest folk band in existence and, while ...
THE LONGEST JOHNS – Ends Of The Earth (Jetsam TLJEOTECD1)
Pivoting around the core membership of Jonathan ‘JD’ Darley, Andy Yates and Robbie Sattin, augmented here by eight others on the likes of flute, violin, ...
LEMONCELLO – A Perfect Place (Claddagh Records 5729741)
What a difference a year or so can make, as Lemoncello triptoe through a transportive beautiful dream, that may or not be real. The Dublin ...
BEN AND JON AVISON – Wild Wisdom: Songs Of The Green Trails (own label)
Recruiting his Oxford-based son Ben on vocals, along with verbal and visual reflections by twenty artists and twenty writers (Kevin Threlfall and Damian Hall among ...
TOPETTE!! – Tazon (own label TPT007)
Topette!!, as in the name of the band, always includes the two exclamation marks, and it would be churlish to suggest they are there by ...
Official Folk Album chart – April 2026
On Tuesday 5th May the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the April reporting period in ...
A DIFFERENT THREAD – Over Again
A Different Thread are Alicia Best and Robert Jackson, from the US and UK respectively. They met a decade ago whilst busking on the streets ...
ALBION – It Was In The Month Of May 1 (own label)
Something about the cover of It Was In The Month Of May 1, the second full length album from folk rockers Albion, made me think ...
So one year on and the second year of the new ‘shrunken’ format of Fairport’s Cropredy festival 2026 approaches
One year on… from Fairport’s first shrunken Cropredy festival last year – how's it all going for 2026 and what can we look forward to? ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – A World Of Our Own – The UK & Irish Folk Explosion Of 1965 (Cherry Red CR3JAMBX59)
The latest in the label’s terrific compilation of 60s folk music, this three CD set follows its predecessors in an archive trawl of 1965 that ...
Fairport Convention look forward to diamond jubilee
Following four weeks on the road for their packed Spring 2026 Tour, formidable Folk-Rockers Fairport Convention have announced an Autumn 2026 Tour, ahead of a ...
MAIREARAD GREEN – Tim (Buie Records BUIECD10)
To get one thing straight, Tim is pronounced “Cheem” and is the Gaelic word for time. This isn’t the place for my usual diatribe about ...
HONEY AND THE BEAR – A Wish & A Tide (own label)
Their fourth album and the first not to have a Suffolk term as its title, nonetheless Lucy (double bass, bouzouki, guitar, glockenspiel) and Jon (double ...
The Nest Collective’s Magpie’s Nest festival returns
This summer, independent arts organisation The Nest Collective’s flagship festival Magpie’s Nest is back, bringing an extraordinary lineup of folk andworld music to the beautiful ...
Unsung folk heroes – The New Forest Folk Festival 2026 previewed by Paul Johnson
SOME ‘INNER WORKINGS’ OF A GREAT LITTLE FESTIVAL WITH THE BIG NAMESOUR VERY OWN PAUL JOHNSON LOOKS FORWARD TO ANOTHER STUNNING YEAR FOR THE NEW ...
ANANA KAYE – Are You There? (Meridian Music Group ECRMD26003)
Hailing from Georgia (as in Eastern Europe not the American south) and now based in Nashville, Kaye and her husband collaborator Irakli Gabriel, are very ...
SEVEN CROWS – Powers Of Observation
Seven Crows is the artistic name used by Chris Muphy, a Los Angeles violinist, composer and loop artist. To expand on the latter point, Powers ...
JOE MARTIN – Alone In Valentine (North Star Records)
Titled for a town in West Texas and a line from a co-write session with Steve Anderson for Alone In Valentine, his second studio album, ...
TIWAYO – Outsider
If something good passes nearby, it’s well worth ignoring boundaries to have a look and a listen. Released on April 10th, Outsider is the new ...
LUKE JAMES WILLIAMS – Limes Hotel (own label)
Hailing from Cambridgeshire, Limes Hotel is Williams’ second album one that, recorded with longtime collaborator Nick Kozuch and featuring guest vocals from Dear Wife, comes ...
The Official Folk Albums Chart – March 2026
On Tuesday 7th April the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the March reporting period in ...
THOMM JUTZ – Ring-A-Bellin’ (own label)
After a series of collaborative album over the past decade, Ring-A-Bellin’ is the Nashville-based German singer-songwriter’s first solo album in six years, albeit here joined ...
ANNA McLUCKIE – The Little Winters (Hudson HUD061CD)
The little winters is a term used in the US to describe spring frosts, apparently regular enough to constitute an almanac of sorts and characterised ...
THE CARTWHEEL PENNIES – 1797 (own label)
A Leicestershire acoustic folk harmony trio comprising Amanda Berry, Julie Holland and Liz Wall, the name comes from three coins detectorists found in the field ...
LEWIS PUGH – Heretics And Heritage (own label)
Some artists who are labelled Americana have a tenuous relationship with the term. Not Lewis Pugh – he’s full on. You can tell that the ...
HANNAH JAMES AND TOBY KUHN – Where All Our Names Belong (JigDoll Records JDR004)
Where All Our Names Belong is the second collaboration between singer, accordionist, sansula player and dancer Hannah James and cellist Toby Kuhn. It’s a lovely ...
Cara Dillon brings Coming Home to London
With over 55 sold-out performances of Coming Home to date, Cara will bring her acclaimed show to Cadogan Hall, London on April 16th 2026. Following ...
Dan Walsh announces new album and tour dates
BBC Folk Awards nominee Dan Walsh is releasing his first full studio album of original material since 2019 – and it’s already been described as ...
BLUENOSE B is interviewed by Paul Johnson about his new album Truth Is King
Hi all and welcome along to my latest podcast. In this feature I talk to Stephen Lawson AKA Bluenose B about his new album Truth ...
Kate Rusby set to top Barnsley Folk Festival
Barnsley Folk Festival will return to the town centre on May 29- 31 as part of Civic 150, the 18-month celebration which marks 150 years ...
Gigspanner Big Band announce April tour
The Gigspanner Big Band are a unique force in British folk music... their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and to those looking for ...
MOONRAKERS – I Am the Mountain (own label)
Oxford based four-piece band, Moonrakers, have built a reputation for their lush arrangements, shimmering soundscapes, and intricate instrumental tapestries. If that sounds appealing, I can ...
ANDY LLOYD – Bay Window (DTI Records)
Titled because it features songs the Halesowen-born singer-songwriter used to record for YouTube in the bay window of his flat, with music production by multi-instrumentalist ...
SINGLES BAR 123 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
From The Aa is a new EP by MOYA SWEENEY & ARCHIE CHURCHILL-MOSS who explore what can be done with a B/C and a D/G ...
CLAIRE VINE – We Carve Our Path (Cuculi Records)
Claire Vine is one third of Hands Of The Heron but she leaves her bandmates behind for her solo album, We Carve Our Path, in ...
Seafret release their fourth album
Yorkshire duo Seafret today release their long-awaited fourth studio album Fear Of Emotion, out now via Nettwerk. Marking a bold and deeply personal new chapter ...
DOUG MISHKIN – Tip of the Spear
Let’s start with a bold statement and then come back to the detail…..On Doug Mishkin’s new album Tip Of The Spear – his third album ...
Deadline approaches for Alan Surtees Trust funding applications
The deadline is approaching for young musicians, dancers, singers and performers who want to apply for a grant of up to £2,000 to develop their ...
Anna McLuckie announces new album
The Little Winters is the new album from Edinburgh-born nu-folk singer and clàrsach player Anna McLuckie. The title refers to an American term describing late ...
David Youngs announces third solo album
Fragments is the third solo acoustic guitar album from Cambridge based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist David Youngs. It’s been ten years since his last release due ...
HUGO RACE FATALISTS – I Made It All Up For You (Gustaf Records/Helixed)
An Australian based in Italy and backed by a band of Italian musicians along with Elysian Fields singer Jennifer Charles, self-described as an atmospheric “fusion ...
The Christian Raphael Prize returns to Cambridge Folk Festival
The Christian Raphael Prize for Emerging Artists was established by Cambridge Folk Festival, Christian Raphael and his family. This prestigious prize provides the opportunity for ...
PÀDRUIG MORRISON – Buin (own label PM01)
Should warning be needed, and I would say it isn’t, Buin is largely instrumental, mostly original and intrinsically Gaelic music. Morrison is an accordion player ...
Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith announce summer album
After several years delighting audiences with their hugely loved wintertime project Awake Arise, the folk supergroup of Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans & Hazel ...
CHARLIE WHEATLEY – Ratcliffe Cross (own label)
London-based multi-instrumentalist Charlie Wheatley is about to release his debut album, Ratcliffe Cross, a set of seven tunes derived from old dance tunes. It seems ...
Emily Portman announces new album
Emily Portman returns with Dominion Of Spells, her fourth studio album of original songs and first solo release in a decade, reclaiming her voice after ...
Full details of Folk On The Pier 2026
Celebrating Twenty-Six Years of ‘The Best Gig on the North Sea’ In a folk festival world of churned up grass and mud beneath your feet, ...
ANDY SMYTHE – Quiet Revolution (Dreaming Element Records)
Quiet Revolution is London based singer/songwriter Andy Smythe’s eighth studio album. It is released on March 13th and as he says it “delves into complex ...
ALI LEVACK: Levack (own label LEVACK01CD)
Levack is a man to watch and to keep an ear on. The winner of 2020’s BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year, ...
WATKIN SHARKEY – Watkin Sharkey (Empress CD001)
Watkin Sharkey’s single, ‘Sails’, made something of an impression and here it is as the opening track of his eponymous debut album. Watkin is from ...
Wuthering Heights Artist Olivia Chaney To Headline Late Spring Folk Festival 2026
Other headliners include Jon Wilks, Natalie Wildgoose, Alan Power & The Take Twos, and Les Caravanes To feature a new tent, The Garden Stage, as well ...
SARA COLMAN AND REBECCA NASH – Ribbons Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane Records – SLR1885)
The search for something elusive is the thread that binds Ribbons Vol.1 together, so it seems appropriate that this album was a long time coming ...
SIMON O’GRADY AND TIM WHITE – Stop Frame Animation (own label)
An alt-folk duo with former Grand Union member O'Grady on guitar, vocals and flute and White on banjo, joined here by Ed Hopwood on harmonica ...
GEORGIA SHACKLETON – From The Floorboards (own label)
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Sir Edward Shackleton setting sale to Antarctica with Captain Scott aboard the Discovery. In commemoration, his violinist and ...
HOLLY CLARKE – Wild Feral Fierce (own label HC95WFF)
Hailing from the Lake District, Wild Feral Fierce is Clarke’s solo debut album following both her own EP and one with The Reivers. A traditional ...
Suzanne Vega announces additional tour dates
FLYING WITH ANGELS TOUR 2026 ADDITIONAL SUMMER HEADLINE SHOWS JUST ANNOUNCED! Iconic singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega continues her successful Flying With Angels Tour, bringing a career-spanning set to stops ...
Copperplate podcast 315 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 ...
KATHERINE PRIDDY – These Frightening Machines (Cooking Vinyl CDCOOK954)
In the space of just a few years, Priddy has gone from low key gigs around Birmingham, to having two charting albums, supporting Suzanne Vega ...
JESSIE REID – Little Sparks (own label)
Computer issues and the obliteration of emails meant Little Sparks somehow got buried, so it’s a rather belated review of the Shropshire singer’s second album, ...
ANDREW RUMSEY – Blank Arcades (Garde du Nord GDNCD140)
The Bishop of Ramsbury returns in his musical persona, as ever accompanied by David Perry on guitars and church organ, percussionist Louis Spanton and Cameron ...
LUCY KITCHEN – In The Low Light (own label)
Another album (her third) with songs written in the run up to and aftermath of the Southampton-based singer’s husband’s death, of grieving and coming to ...
FIRELIGHT TRIO – Midnight Followed (own label EDFLT02)
You can tell Firelight Trio mean business by the brisk and choppy way they scythe into Midnight Followed, staking their sturdy claim from the start ...
SINGLES BAR 122 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Guitarist MIGUEL GIRÃO follows The Northern Isles Suite with The Northern Isles Suite – Part II, releasing this digital EP to complete the eight-track work ...
VARIOUS – All In Due Course: The Songs of Roger Watson (WildGoose)
A major influence on English folk and dance for six decades, a stalwart of Muckram Wakes and The New Victory Band, All In Due Course ...
LINZI JANE MORGAN – Love & Other Stories (Stanley Records LMCD01)
Written in the aftermath of her husband’s death and inspired by the phrase “out of chaos stars are born”, as that suggests Love & Other Stories is ...
AMY HOPWOOD – Gone To Flowers (own label)
Quirky is an easy way to label Exeter-based Hopwood’s third album, Gone To Flowers, (the title a nod to Pete Seeger perhaps), indeed the press ...
BROOKS WILLIAMS & AARON CATLOW – Working In Wood (Red Guitar Blue Music RGBM 2601)
Working In Wood is the fourth duo recording by Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow and finds them deeply immersed in the modern sound of Americana ...
Claire Vine releases her debut solo album next month
Claire Vine will release her debut solo album We Carve Our Path on 13 March 2026 with Bristol-based DIY label Cuculi Records. A thread of ...
PETE COE celebrates his 80th birthday!
Pete has been singing & playing folk songs & dance tunes for 60 years, starting as a folk club organiser in ‘65 whilst at college ...
FINN COLLINSON: Byway (Self-released OSMCD03)
Is the recorder the most cruelly maligned instrument of all? Despite a beautiful and clear tone, for too many it is too potent a memory ...
Sarah McQuaid announces major tour
“Settle down, and I’ll try to make a soothing sound”, Sarah McQuaid sings on the opening number of her current concert set. That she does ...
AMY LEACH AND ALASDAIR PAUL – They’ll Aye Remain (own label ALAPCD02)
Amy and Alasdair describe They’ll Aye Remain as a collection of songs they love to sing which is probably the best reason for singing. Like ...
Sara Colman and Rebecca Nash announce new album
Sara Colman and Rebecca Nash, the compelling vocalist-songwriter and pianist-composer duo, are to release their absorbing new collaboration Ribbons in February 2026 with Stoney Lane Records – ...
JOHN REED – Another Maniac Shouting Against The Relentless Hurricane (Exclusive Subscriber Album January 2026)
Berwick based singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist John Reed always has something profound to say and sing about. Another Maniac Shouting Against The Relentless Hurricane is exactly that. ...
PAUL COWLEY – Long Shadow (Lou B Music)
Paul Cowley has graced these pages several times usually at the pen of our late friend David Harley. His latest album, Long Shadow, continues his ...
WELCOME TO WANDSWORTH’S MONTH OF MUSIC
A celebration of local artists, music-making and heritage across the borough and online kicks off with the launch of podcast series, our music our freedom ...
HEDERA – Hedera (Cuculi Records – CU020)
It was during lockdown that the members of Bristol based chamber folk group Hedera started playing tunes together, around a bonfire. Having five members kept ...
ROBERTA SMITH – Textile Lemonade (Indigosongs)
I’m afraid that this is another album that slipped down the back of the metaphorical settee. Textile Lemonade was released at the end of last ...
HAMISH HEPBURN & JACK HOUSTON – Afore Ye Go (Gowan Street Records Reelsing01)
Celtic duos come in a multitude of forms. Hamish Hepburn (flute, whistles and pipes) hails from the Cairngorms and from Donegal comes Jack Houston (fiddle, ...
JOHN PAUL MASON – Overstory (own label JPMCD001)
From Edinburgh but now based in Comrie, Mason is a breathwork therapist and ‘outdoor nature sprite’ with a deep connection to the landscapes of Perthshire ...
Copperplate Podcast 314
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 ...
Official Folk Albums chart – January 2026
On Tuesday 3rd February the Official Charts Company revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the January reporting period in ...
Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow announce new album
For their 4th recording, Working In Wood, Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow return to Josh Clark’s Get Real Audio in Bath UK. Also part of ...
SINGLES BAR 121 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
The year has turned and it's wonderful to be able to begin this post with SAM CARTER, a singer of traditional songs and those written ...
SEAN TAYLOR – First Light (Sean Taylor Songs STCD120)
Climate change, political extremism and the dignity of working-class life are all themes that run through Taylor’s new album, First Light, one drenched in disillusionment ...
Cambridge Folk Festival – full line-up
Cherry Hinton Hall, Saturday 1 August & Sunday 2 August FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED This Is The Kit - Seth Lakeman - Skinny Lister - Brògeal ...
TESSA ROSE JACKSON – The Lighthouse (Tiny Tiger)
Anglo-Dutch singer/songwriter Tessa Rose Jackson’s new album The Lighthouse gained the accolade of folk album of the month in The Guardian. The opening title track ...
Second wave of artists for Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2026
A three-time Grammy Award winner and the UK premiere of an exclusive new Celtic music and dance show are among latest names released for this ...
The Willow Trio announce their new album: The Bestiary
The Willow Trio’s second album The Bestiary shakes things up after their classical-Gaelic debut The Swan of Salen. Filled front to back with new, original ...
AMY DUNCAN – Greetings From Gartnavel (Last Night From Glasgow)
Unless you live in Glasgow, it’s unlikely that you’d know that Gartnavel is a mental hospital in the city’s West End. Sparsely arranged a la ...
Kerrville Folk Festival back for 54th year
For over 50 years running the Kerrville Folk Festival has been presenting an amazing lineup over 19 days in the Texas Hill Country at the ...
HUMM – To Keep You Warm (own label)
A Bath-based duo comprising guitarist Arty Jackson and lead singer and harmonium player Carys Lewin, To Keep You Warm, joined by percussionist Josh Clarke, Rob ...
LUCY MELLENFIELD – Tell The Water, She Will Listen (Stoney Lane Records)
Hailing from the North East but now Birmingham-based after graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in June 2022, while she released a mini-album, In My ...
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – Circle And Square (Red Beet Records)
Circle And Square, their second collaboration, again featuring contributions from bassist Mark Fain and drummer Lynn Williams with occasional piano by Finn Goodwin-Bain, this is ...
DIANE COLL – Strangely In Tune (Happy Fish Records)
From Chicago and based in Atlanta, Strangely In Tune is Coll’s fifth album and one that speaks of resilience and healing, emerging from troubled times ...
Ma Polaine’s Great Decline announce new album
Somerset’s acclaimed duo Ma Polaine’s Great Decline return with their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Monster Swan, set for release on 20th February. Known for their distinctive fusion ...
TONY POOLE – Faith In Us (Aurora AUR07)
Although he’s been making music since 1974, primarily as part of Starry Eyed And Laughing, the UK’s answer to The Byrds, more recently his 12 ...
MICHELLE LAVERICK – Helm Winds (own label)
Originally from Teesside, but now living in Derbyshire’s Peak District, Laverick released her debut album in 2023, following up with the Selkie Child EP that ...
ANNE GAIR – Cigarettes And Smokescreens (own label AG001GD)
Anne Gair is a singer-songwriter from Scotland making her full-length recording debut with Cigarettes And Smokescreens after a series of singles. Her album, produced by ...
ANDY M STEWART – Songs Of Robert Burns (Birnam CD BCD625)
Songs Of Robert Burns was originally released in Germany and the USA between 1989 and 1991 but I believe that this is its first UK ...
ADAM WEIKERT – To Whom Ourselves We Owe (own label)
Adam Weikert (and I confess that I had to look him up) is a musician, composer, performer and producer from Leicester and, I have to ...
SINGLES BAR 120 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
The Ballad Of Harold Camping, their new EP, gives TANGLEJACK the opportunity to let their hair down with some rather more lighthearted songs. The opener, ...
The Saw Doctors return to Wickham Festival
The Saw Doctors are set to headline the Wickham Festival – by public demand. The ever-popular Irish band will top the bill on Saturday August ...
THE GHOST AND THE MACHINE – Sorrows (Fullmax Recordings)
The Ghost And The Machine was founded by Andreas Lechner in Austria in 2012 and the new album, Sorrows, was released in November. There are ...
Sarah McQuaid – tour dates and album news
Sarah McQuaid gears up for her warm-up UK tour starting in January – with a new album in the works! Having just returned from a ...
THE REVELLERS – Reactors (own label REVC003)
Listening to Reactors, the new album from Shetland Folk-Rockers The Revellers, reminded me of something that happened a few years ago. I was working at ...
PAUL JOHNSON’S NEW MINI PODCAST – Paul speaks to ANNE GAIR about her debut album – Cigarettes And Smokescreens
SO....OUR VERY OWN PAUL JOHNSON’S LATEST MINI PODCAST AUDIO ALBUM REVIEW FEATURES A VERY OPEN, INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE AND COMPELLING INTERVIEW WITH THE UP-AND-COMING HUGELY TALENTED, ...
Moseley Folk and Arts Festival unveils its first artists for 2026’s historic anniversary edition.
Running from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September 2026 in the tranquil surroundings of Moseley Park, Birmingham, the just-confirmed acts are The Dead South, Johnny ...
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2026: Full Line-Up Announced & Tickets on Sale
After a sold out edition in 2025, Fairport's Cropredy Convention returns for 2026 with a trademark line-up of folk and rock heavyweights, alongside some of ...
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 ...
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