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).
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 ...
Anstruther hosts East Neuk Festival
This year, Anstruther in Fife will be at the heart of East Neuk Festival’s 20th anniversary celebrations (25-29 June) with a vibrant weekend programme of ...
FOLKLAW – Catch The Sun (Fiddle Of 8 Records FO8RO4CD)
Co-produced by long-time Gerry Colvin sideman Lyndon Webb, who also plays mandolin and guitars, Catch The Sun is a welcome return after a six-year gap ...
FINDLAY NAPIER – Outsider (The Bothy Society TBS21)
Findlay Napier never stops working. Solo albums, guest appearances, collaborations and projects, including a particularly fine album. The Ledger (https://folking.com/findlay-napier-gillian-frame-with-mike-vass-the-ledger-cheery-008/) have filled the last decade ...
Copperplate Podcast 304 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 ...
ALICE ALLEN – Bass Culture (Live At Celtic Connections 2024) (Ardgowan Records ARO5CD)
There is a rare connection between the atmospherics of Scottish music and the majesty of orchestration, the two fitting together snugly and warmly, whether derived ...
LITTLE LORE – River Stories (own label)
Having released ‘I Can Breathe Underwater’ earlier this year, Portsmouth-born and Chiswick-based Tricia Duffy follows with River Stories, a collection of songs that touch more ...
60 years of BROADSTAIRS FOLK WEEK
Paul Johnson talks to Kai Hoffman who is the new festival director of Broadstairs Folk Week 2025 Broadstairs folk week reaches its 60th year.. and ...
FolkEast premieres new ‘trio’ in Earth: The Silent Planet
Constantly on a quest to seek out ‘exclusives’, Suffolk’s FolkEast will play host to a very special ‘trio’ premiere this August at its new Sotterley ...
JOSHUA ARNOLD AND THERINE – Folk Music of the British Isles: The Dark and Macabre, Vol. 1 (own label)
The follow-up to last year’s A Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, The Dark And Macabre Vol 1 finds the north west experimental folk duo digging deep ...
SINGLES BAR 112 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
TOM HOUSTON has a new digital EP, River Is Me, a set of six acoustic songs. It opens with the title track, a languid song ...
Alison O’Donnell and Gayle Brogan announce their duo album – A Colloquy of Birds
This album, a collection of songs inspired by the folklore of birds, has been many years in the making and it is a privilege and ...
Eliza Gilkyson announces new album
Eliza Gilkyson is a twice Grammy-nominated (2006/2014) singer-songwriter and activist who is one of the most respected musicians in Folk, Roots and Americana circles. Her ...
ANDREW RUMSEY – Collodion (Gard du Nord Records GDNCD112)
When not tending the flock as the Bishop of Ramsbury, Rumsey has a parallel career in pastoral pysch-folk with a previous album and EP to ...
IAN A ANDERSON – Alien Water (Ghosts From The Basement)
Ian A Anderson: musician, record label boss, publisher, promoter, broadcaster, festival director and author. And, if I’m any judge, a man who knows where the ...
The folking team remember Darren Beech
The 25th of March 2021. A date etched in our hearts, a day that stole away a light, a laughter, a presence – Darren Beech, ...
CALUM WOOD – Patterns (Magic Park Records)
Referencing the Knoydart peninsula is a sure-fire way to grab this listeners attention, should any budding folkies need that to know, but it then takes ...
Martin Carthy announces new album
In celebration of his incredible career, Martin Carthy is set to release a brand-new album, Transform Me Then Into A Fish on May 21st 2025 ...
ANDREW FERGUSON AS SIASA – Different Kinds Of Folk (own label)
Playing everything except sax and drums, which, along with bass on one track, are handled by Graham Crawford, Different Kinds Of Folk is Edinburgh-based Ferguson’s ...
RACHAEL McSHANE & THE CARTOGRAPHERS – Uncharted (own label)
It’s been far too long since we’ve heard from Rachael McShane – seven years since her last album, in fact. Now she’s back with The ...
Kate Rusby – new album and tour dates
Renowned folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby is set to release her highly anticipated new album, When They All Looked Up, on April 25 via Pure Records ...
GERRY COLVIN – Past, Present & Crescent (Crocodile CA0057)
A mix of, as the title says, old, new and songs from the 2022 Crescent Theatre show by The Gerry Colvin Band (Jerome Davies, Trish ...
STEVE TILSTON – Last Call (Talking Elephant Records TECD504)
Last Call is the last album of critically acclaimed folk stalwart Steve Tilston, who has a shone in a career which has spanned over 50 ...
Twangtown Paramours announce new album and tour dates
The Wind Will Change Again is the fourth release by the Twangtown Paramours (Mike T Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer) and is their first Folk album ...
KAREN MACLEOD – Low Road (own label)
Karen Macleod releases Low Road on March 20th. She describes this first solo album as, “a mix of both old Country Blues, American folk and ...
ROBB JOHNSON & THE IRREGULARS – Voila! Here We Are (Irregular Records IRR131)
The prolific Robb Johnson is back in slightly raucous full band mode with an album that sounds as though it was made just for fun ...
VARIOUS – Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s US Folk Rock Explosion (Cherry Red CR3JAMBX41)
One of the attractions of these compilations, especially for genre aficionados and collectors, is the chance of discovering rare and obscure releases long lost to ...
Green Diesel announce 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 ...
JOE McMAHON – When Adam Was A Boy (own label JMM2025CD)
Joe McMahon is a Clydesider and from his PR photograph you’d think he was actually built there. When Adam Was A Boy is his second ...
STEVE KNIGHTLEY – Positively Folk Street: Dylan, Carthy & me (Hands On Music HMCD55)
Spurred by Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, this fairly rapid and, playing guitar, harmonica and cuatro, wholly solo follow up to last year’s The Winter ...
Steve Tilston releases his final album
Steve Tilston Releases his final album Last Call today, 7th March, more than 50 years after releasing his debut. 50 years plus on from ...
SAM SLATCHER & THE RAILWAY POETS – Passengers & Pioneers (own label SSCD12025)
Oddly, the English folk-song tradition has very little to say about the railways, unlike the USA which embraced the permanent way in so many songs ...
REG MEUROSS – Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story (Hatsongs HAT026)
Commissioned by Pete Townshend (who served as producer and plays bass and keys on two tracks) and conceived well before the interest revived by A ...
COLIN MACDUFF – Halfway to Summer (own label)
Halfway to Summer is the third album from Scottish singer songwriter Colin Macduff and will be released on March 7th. Macduff describes the album as ...
Manchester Folk Festival – two weeks to go
Set to take over some of the city’s most beloved venues, Manchester Folk Festival returns in a fortnight! Moving from its regular October slot, the ...
IAN M BAILEY – Lost In A Sound (Kool Kat Musik PURR 2313)
His latest writing collaboration with Daniel Wylie from Cosmic Rough Riders finds the Lancashire-based Bailey again soaking up the folk-rock and cosmic country psychedelia West ...
Gaz Brookfield: Almost All Village Halls Tour 2025! – Last Dates Available
Get ready for an intimate and unforgettable experience! Gaz Brookfield is hitting the road again in 2025, bringing his renowned live show to village halls ...
The Official Charts Company – February’s best selling folk albums
On Tuesday 4th March the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in ...
Suzanne Vega – new album and tour
Widely regarded as one of the foremost songwriters of her generation or any other, Suzanne Vega is set to release her first full-length album of ...
DAN SEALEY – Beware Of Darkness (own label)
Bassist with Ocean Colour Scene and co-founder of the brilliant but seemingly short-lived Merrymouth, Dan Sealey has been writing, performing and recording as a solo ...
GABRIEL MORENO – Nights In The Belly Of Bohemia (Poetry Mondays)
Gibraltar born but London based singer-songwriter and poet Gabriel Moreno releases his sixth album Nights In The Belly Of Bohemia in early April. It's also ...
Gaz Brookfield: Silchester Village Hall Transformed – A Night of Raw Heart and Honest Grit.
Friday the 28th of Feb, 2025, Silchester Village Hall didn't just become a community space; it became a sanctuary of storytelling, a roaring singalong, and ...
3HATTRIO – Come Morning (Blue Gate Records)
“We believe that if we are truly aware and open to the exact time we live, the exact place we are placed, then it is ...
Skinny Lister announce new album and four dates
Relentless folk/punk powerhouses, Skinny Lister, are ecstatic to announce their new album Songs From The Yonder - due for release on 9 May 2025, via ...
Lochaber Live festival returns
A much-loved Scottish festival at the foot of Ben Nevis, which was revived last year at the hands of Scottish cultural visionary Gary Innes, has announced ...
LISA KNAPP AND GERRY DIVER – Hinterland (Ear To The Ground)
A mix of song and instrumentals and described as a soundscape that weaves together folk horror, remembrance, and the landscapes, both rural and urban, with ...
LIZ OVERS – Nightjar (own label – LO001CD)
Nightjar is a fascinating album. Sussex singer-songwriter Liz Overs’ debut solo album is mysterious, haunting, spiritual, poetic, imaginative, and a great listen. I wrote debut ...
Hannah Savage & Ben Savage announce new album and autumn tour
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 ...
RED SKY JULY – Misty Morning (own label)
Nine years on from The Truth And The Lie, the trio return with both a new line-up, Haley Glennie-Smith replacing Charity Hair alongside husband and ...
SINGLES BAR 111 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
GREENSHANKS is the nom-de-plume of Will Boyd-Wallis who works for The National Trust for Scotland in Strathspey. Stormbird is his debut EP; five songs with ...
FIONA SOE PAING – Sand, Silt, Flint (Colliderscope CSFSPCD202401)
A recent review apologised for being a month or so late to the party; this time, it is hard to even establish when the party ...
CHRIS BRAIN – New Light (BSR 006)
Yorkshire based singer-songwriter Chris Brain releases his third album New Light, having gained a lot of followers with his first two albums in 2022 and ...
Cecil Sharp House to host inaugural feminist folk club festival
On Saturday 8 March 2025, the English Folk Dance and Song Society will present the first ever Feminist Folk Club Festival at Cecil Sharp House ...
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver announce new album
Celebrated musicians Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver release their remarkable collaborative album, Hinterland on EarToTheGround Music on 7th March 2025. The duo will launch ‘Hinterland’ on 1st March 2025 at new venue World Heart Beat, Embassy Gardens, London followed by UK ...
HAL CANNON – Cowboy Sutra (own label)
A solo album by the 3 Hat Trio’s banjo player, Cowboy Sutra is, save for one track, a collection of covers of old and traditional ...
RANDALL STEPHEN HALL – Wake The Blue Sleeper (own label RSH 008 CD2025)
Born in Belfast and now based in Co. Antrim, Hall is both a songwriter/poet and a children’s storybook author/illustrator, both of which feed into Wake ...
Shrewsbury Folk Festival finalises 2025 line up
Shrewsbury Folk Festival has released its complete 2025 line-up following the announcement of four new artists. Organisers have tempted Newcastle folk rockers Holy Moly & The ...
LEO DISANTO – To Fly So Low (own label)
Singer-songwriter Leo DiSanto has released his third studio album as a solo act, To Fly So Low. Described by the artist himself as being, “made ...
INNOCENT HARE – The Windings Of Their Wandering Song (Leporidae 001)
It was back in 1991 that Vikki Clayton released Midsummer Cushion, an album of settings of poems by John Clare. Oddly, Clare never really found ...
Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps celebrate the anniversary of the miner’s strike
Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps, of seminal Welsh band The Chartists , today announce some new gig dates, two of which are special in that ...
JENN BUTTERWORTH – Her By Design (One In Ten Records 110CD001)
Jenn Butterworth describes her debut album as “a feminist statement”. Her By Design certainly opens with a statement; a powerful version of Sandy Denny’s ‘All ...
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman celebrate thirty years
2025 sees Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman celebrate thirty years of making music together. One of the UK’s most successful folk duos, they will embark ...
The Ocelots – new album and tour
The Ocelots are twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson from Wexford, now residing in Leipzig, Germany. Building on the folk-rock essence of their debut, the duo ...
DAN RAZA – Wayfarer (Valve Records)
Following on from the critically acclaimed success of London based Dan Raza’s first two albums, he is back with his latest album Wayfarer, which is ...
Cowboy Junkies reissue debut album
Step back into the raw, atmospheric roots of Cowboy Junkies with this reissue of their 1986 debut album, Whites Off Earth Now!!. Captured live to tape ...
Hannah Rose Platt announces second album
Bristol-based chanteuse Hannah Rose Platt makes a sweeping return in 2025 with news of a new album Fragile Creatures. Due for release via the Xtra ...
GWILYM BOWEN RHYS – Aden (Recordiau Erwydd ER006)
Gwilym Bowen Rhys is the rising star of Welsh folk music. Actually, that should really be the risen star given that Aden is his fifth ...
Jenn Butterworth announces debut album
On February 28, 2025, award-winning Scottish musician Jenn Butterworth will release her highly anticipated debut album, Her By Design. A stirring blend of traditional folk ...
FolkEast moves house
England’s most easterly folk festival – Suffolk’s FolkEast – has officially revealed the site of its new home. The perennially popular festival, founded and organised by husband-and-wife ...
FRANCES MORTON – Sliocht (own label FM2024CD)
One of the issues around late December releases is that they can sometimes get lost in the hurly-burly over Christmas, with deadlines expanding to include ...
UK WEST COAST FOLK FESTIVAL – January 9-11th: Blackpool
Having arrived at the magnificent Blackpool Winter Gardens to the sight of queues stretching around the block, it came as both a disappointment and a ...
SINGLES BAR 110 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
ANDY SMYTHE is an amazing wordsmith songwriter and has proved this over and over again through the years. Hot on the heels of his critically ...
JACKDAW – Ghost In The Big House (Cutthroat 3757-03)
JackDaw released Ghost In The Big House in 2023, little fanfare, little push – not unlike their release of the splendid No Cactus in 2019. Reasonably, ...
FAIRPORT’S ‘SLIMMER’ CROPREDY CONVENTION 2025 – Paul Johnson talks to Simon Nicol and Dave Pegg
Hi Paul Johnson here, and I like thousands of other people across all ages, not just in the media but in life in general am ...
AINSLEY HAMILL – Fable (own label AVH003)
Unfamiliar name, with a quick scan of the contents of Fable suggesting nothing overly novel to be encountered, this was an immediate misstep. Female singers and ...
Three songwriters embark on Irish tour
Step into an evening where the artistry of three exceptional folk musicians comes alive, each bringing their unique flair to the stage in an incredible ...
WILL FINN & ROSIE CALVERT – Fallow Alchemy (own label)
That’s fallow in the sense of resting as in the classic crop rotation system, so Fallow Alchemy is an album about the science of kicking ...
Shrewsbury Folk Festival announces more names
Shrewsbury Folk Festival has released its second wave of artists for this August’s event including Canadian singer songwriter Martha Wainwright and a special focus on Scottish music ...
DARIA KULESH- MotherLand (own label)
MotherLand, her fourth studio album and her first since 2019, finds Daria, celebrating ten years on the UK folk scene, drawing on a myriad of ...
PHILIP RAMBOW – I’m An Artist (Fretsore Records)
I’m an Artist is released on January 31st, his first new album in five years. Rambow was born in Canada, came to London in the ...
Cambridge Folk Festival – 2025 event is cancelled
CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL – the four-day folk and roots music festival hosted annually in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cambridge since 1965 – ...
PEDAIR – Dadeni (Sain Records SCD 2866)
I can’t quite understand why I get all the Welsh language albums – I was born in Hertfordshire (although that wasn’t my fault). Not that ...
The Official Folk album chart – December 2024
On Tuesday 14th January the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the December reporting period in the ...
NAOMI GEE WRIGHT – Meteor Trail (Oti-O Records – Oti-O 009)
Naomi Gee Wright’s Meteor Trail is one of those albums that defies easy classification. It’s folk, jazz, classical, world music, and blends all of these ...
DAVID MITCHELL – Contours (own label)
David Mitchell is a classical guitarist with a penchant for traditional music who is also a luthier, half of the duo Mitchell and Vincent and ...
The London Lasses play two January dates
Internationally renowned traditional Irish band The London Lasses will be playing two January dates in their home town! The first event is on Sunday 12th January at Walthamstow ...
PRIME MINISTER – Everything Turns To Dust (digital release)
The Village, or Phil Matthews as he’s known down the pub, has been very good to me already this year. He has afforded me an ...
LIZ JONES & BROKEN WINDOWS – Double Measures (own label)
Double Measures was released in November – and it’s the longest period of time from receipt of an album to finalising a review that I’ve ...
Paul Jones & Dave Kelly – UK Tour
Paul Jones and Dave Kelly, for over forty years part of the remarkable British Roots Rock musical institution that was The Blues Band, are taking to the road in January ...
FOURWINDS – Allta (own label FW005)
The title Allta meaning wild” or “untamed” in Irish and reflecting the musical spirit, this is the traditional trio’s second album, (the first since co-founder ...
Merry Hell release digital single ‘Peace Can Be Louder Than War’
Written by band member Virginia Kettle, 'Peace Can Be Louder Than War' is the first single to be taken from our new and soon coming album Rising Of ...
Will Finn & Rosie Calvert announce their new album
Fallow Alchemy, the new album from Will Finn & Rosie Calvert, is a concept about the radical and transformative power of rest and stillness - ...
JOHN McCUTCHEON – Field Of Stars (Appalsongs)
A native of Wisconsin, Field Of Stars is McCutcheon’s 45th album in an illustrious career that has embraced folk and Americana alike, with songs ranged ...
Happy New Year from Mark Harrison
Hello everyone, 2024 has been a busy and successful year for us, hope it's been OK for you. The photos above show just some of ...
Sidmouth Folk Festival 2025
The Sidmouth Folk Festival is all fired up and poised to ignite the beautiful Devon seaside town for the 71st time in summer 2025 with ...
SINGLES BAR 109 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Described as a quirky indie-folk duo, the COULDN’T BE HAPPIERS are married couple Jodi Hildebran and Jordan Crosby Lee, Couple(t)s being the first half of two EPs, ...
NORMAN PATERSON – Loved (own label NPCD003)
The name of Hebridean singer/ songwriter Norman Paterson has graced our pages in the past. He made his musical debut with Torn at the age ...
Daria Kulesh announces her new album
“I was born a woman” – this simple statement opens the album. What a time to be a woman, an immigrant, and a mother. The ...
FITKINWALL – Uist (NXN Recordings – NXN2021)
Migration is rarely out of the news these days, and one might be forgiven for thinking that mass population movements are unique to our own ...
Alan O’Leary presents Copperplate Podcast 300
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 ...
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2025
7th - 9th August Cropredy Village, nr Banbury, Oxfordshire Seminal Folk Rockers Fairport Convention are very happy to announce the line up for their Cropredy Convention in August, and ...
GJERMUND LARSEN TRIO – Christmas Sessions (Hello Records HCD7436)
If you crave something different for your Christmas musical entertainment this year you might try Christmas Sessions by the Gjermund Larsen Trio. Gjermund is a ...
HELEN GENTILE & LEWIS WOOD – Violet Sky (Grimdon Records CD009)
Clarinet and fiddle are a time honoured combination, the core feature of many an Eastern European town band, as well as being part of the ...
Official Folk album chart – November 2024
On Tuesday 3rd December the Official Charts Company, produced by English Folk Expo, reveals the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the November reporting period in the ...
Fairport Convention – winter tour dates
After a packed year, including two acclaimed tours and another highly successful Cropredy Convention, the architects of British Folk Rock - Fairport Convention - announce ...
JACKIE OATES & JOHN SPIERS – A Midwinter’s Night (Needle Pin Records NP3)
There is sometimes a temptation to deconstruct music for Christmas but that is something Jackie Oates and John Spiers have no truck with. A Midwinter’s ...
BEANS ON TOAST – Wild Goose Chasers (BoT Music BoT17)
Tomorrow, at the time of writing, is Beans On Toast’s birthday and therefore sees the release of his annual album. Sixty years ago, two or ...
SINGLES BAR 108 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
ANNA is Anna Howells, a crooning smoky-voiced saxophonist and clarinettist who spent time in various Yorkshire orchestras and ensembles, the self-released Fall Of A Leaf ...
St AGNES FOUNTAIN – Christmas Starts With (CFATCD053)
Given they’ve been doing this for 23 years, it’s about time they got round to another ‘live’ album, the last being in 2002. With the ...
EVELYN LAURIE AND NEIL THOMSON – Silver Threads (own label STPEN10001)
Before I heard this CD I knew two things about Paisley. Firstly, of course, was the famous pattern and secondly was that it was Gerry ...
GERRY COLVIN – The Last Christmas Needle (Crocodile Music CA0058)
Despite consistent sell-out shows and the fact that he’s one of the finest showmen and songwriters of the past 50 odd years, Colvin's not the ...
THE UNTHANKS – In Winter (Rabble Rouser Music RRM029 / RRM029LP)
Things get well underway for the seasonal releases as The Unthanks deliver a double album of new and traditional festive sounds, many of the tracks ...
FINE LINES – Bourbon Hymns (Parade Recordings)
Bourbon Hymns could only be an Americana album. From the title to the cover photography - a desert scene, complete with cactus trees a telegraph ...
AMY SPEACE – The American Dream (Goldrush Records)
Amy Speace has recently finished a UK tour, has released a new album, The American Dream, and has sent a copy of the album to ...
MICHAEL CHAPMAN – Party Pieces (Live in Bremen 1975) (Made In Germany Music)
Michael Chapman’s posthumous Party Pieces (Live In Bremen 1975) is a very good recording that is, thankfully, “Still Making Rain”, as it features his acoustic ...
STATE OF THE UNION – Paper Tigers (Reveal 201DDX)
Two musicians, Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams, who will work with anybody and everybody occasionally get to work with each other. As a result, Paper ...
HANDS OF THE HERON – Quiet Light (Cuculi CUO19CD)
Comprising Bec Garthwaite, Beth Roberts and Claire Vine, based in Bristol Quiet Light is their third album and the first as an official psychfolk trio, the songs ...
JERRON PAXTON – Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)
Things Done Changed is a modern-day gem – one which would still be a treasure if you slipped ninety or a hundred years through the ...
THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS – Solstice (Hedera Records HRCD124)
The Tannahill Weavers occupy an odd place in the Scottish pantheon, almost a bridging post between the woolly jumper cosiness of the Corries and the ...
Paul Johnson talks to David Boardman about ‘FineLines’ Bourbon Hymns
Hi Paul Johnson here... and welcome to another one of our folking.com podcasts. Here I talk to the ever engaging and charming fellow David Boardman ...
RIP Iconic’s Stevie Horton
It is with great sadness to all in the folking.com community to hear of the sudden unexpected death of Stevie Horton.This was a terrible shock ...
LUKE JACKSON – Bloom (First Take Records FTCD006)
It has been a while since we’ve heard from Luke Jackson. There was a digital EP (now available on CD) called Of The Time back ...
EVE GOODMAN – Summer Sun, Winter Trees (own label EveGAlbum2024)
A native of North Wales, Goodman writes and performs in both Welsh and English and was recently a guest artist on Bryn Terfel’s Sea Songs ...
Seth Lakeman announces new album and tour
Acclaimed folk musician Seth Lakeman is set to release his self-produced new album The Granite Way on 14th February 2025, with an accompanying headline UK tour to ...
BETH MALCOLM – Folkmosis (own label BAM104)
Fifty years ago we might have called Folkmosis a concept album. What it actually is is an autobiography in three acts told in music and ...
ANDREW GABBARD – Ramble & Rave On! (Karma Chief KCR12029)
Andrew Gabbard and his brother Zachary have passed this way before; now Andrew returns with his third solo album, Ramble & Rave On!. Despite its ...
KATIE KNIPP – Me (own label)
I have a thing about genre defying music and Me, the eighth release by California based Katie Knipp certainly ticks that box. Country? Yes. Blues ...
THREE IDLE WOMEN – All Hands Together (Woodshed WSCD003)
Nothing to do with indolence, published in 1947, ‘Idle Women’ was a book by Susan Woolfitt about the waterways equivalent of the women's land army ...
The Official Folk Album chart – October 2024
On Tuesday 5 November the Official Charts Company, in partnership with English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the October reporting period in ...
SUNJAY – I’m Just Like You (Mighty Tight Records MTRCD292401)
For Sunjay Brayne this album marks a pivotal point in his career as he finally reaches the end of an ill-advised publishing deal. Unless you ...
MARTIN FLETT – When The Introverts Come Out (own label MF2024CD)
When The Introverts Come Out marks the point where the Outer Hebrides meet Monument Valley. Martin Flett was born and still lives on the former ...
SINGLES BAR 107 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Following on from the single of the same name as part of the Radio 2 21st Century Folk Project a song telling of the rescue of Marc and Vicky ...
LAURA MARLING – Patterns In Repeat (Chrysalis/Partisan Records)
Laura Marling’s Patterns In Repeat is an intimate album that conjures the magic touch of 70s iconic artists like Peter Hammill, Kate Bush, Roy Harper, ...
Foy Vance on tour next week
Emmy Award-winning songwriter Foy Vance will embark on the very special ‘You & I UK Tour’ next week. Named after a track from Vance’s breakthrough ...
Emma & Ellika announce debut album
Emma & Ellika, two master musicians in a musical interplay cooking with drive and richness of colour. Tight, attentive and wilful, always with the groove ...
State Of The Union announce new album and tour
Paper Tigers is the fourth album from State Of The Union (Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams). It was written in fits and starts whenever they ...
MIKE REINSTEIN – The Birds Don’t Sing Around Here (Irregular Records)
Mike Reinstein has graced these pages previously but it has been six years since I last wrote about him. He has enjoyed a varied career, ...
FURLINED – Kill Devil Hills (Concave Music CCV03)
A name new to me, it seems Furlined have been around for some time, Kill Devil Hills being album number three. However, the name seems ...
REITIR – Fe Alt Som Eingong Va (Eighth Nerve Audio 8nerve012)
We get some unusual albums here at Folking Towers and this surely counts as one of those. Reitir are as much a project as a ...
Three Idle Women release debut album
The Three Idle Women were forged by a shared love of the Oxford Canal and a fondness for close harmony singing, folk music and stories ...
Erlend Viken Trio announce new album
With hardanger fiddle, electric guitar, and double bass, the Erlend Viken Trio presents folk music with a distinctive soundscape; rooted in Norwegian tradition, and drawing ...
EWEN HENDERSON – Léirsinn – Perception (Sgadan Records)
An initial inspection of Ewen Henderson’s new album left me puzzled. The front cover looks old-fashioned, something from the 1960s perhaps, not suggesting anything ground-breaking ...
Songs Of Protest – one night only
The Staves, Bess Atwell, Grace Petrie Hosted by Pauline Black Sunday 27 Oct 2024, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Coventry and 2-Tone legend Pauline Black (The ...
AERIALISTS – I Lost My Heart On Friday (Fiddlehead Records 015)
We know these Canadians, an earlier outing getting the Golembeski seal of approval some time back, for last album, ‘Dear Sienna‘, in 2020. Based around ...
Sunjay announces his new album
I’m Just Like You – the new album from UK based international singer/songwriter & guitarist Sunjay is lined up for release on Monday 11th November ...
GOZER GOODSPEED – Ruben
A charity single released on Bandcamp November 1st., Ruben’ is a charity single with a difference. ‘Ruben’ was written, arranged, performed, mixed and mastered by ...
TIM EDEY – Little Bird (Gnatbite Records GBR024)
Subtitled 22 Compositions from 1995 – 2024, that, inescapably, is exactly what Little Bird is. And if you are still unaware of who Tim Edey ...
The 35th Scottish International Storytelling Festival – next week
The 35th Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s packed programme of over 130 events, taking place in Edinburgh and across Scotland, kicks off next Friday 18 October thanks to support ...
3 DAFT MONKEYS – Information Camouflage (own label 3DM17)
3 Daft Monkeys are a band that would have John Peel salivating if he were still with us. They are from Cornwall and it may ...
STEVE KNIGHTLEY – The Winter Yards (Hands On Music HMCD054)
Astonishingly, it has been seventeen years since Steve Knightley’s previous solo album. Mind you, the popularity of Show Of Hands and his low-key solo tours ...
STICK IN THE WHEEL: A Thousand Pokes (From Here Records SITWO24CD)
Pokes? The dictionary suggests jabs or thrusts, such as in the eye, sharp stick optional, but, other than figuratively, I'm not sure that is quite ...
CATCH THE RAIN – Alder Grove (own label)
A quartet from Stourbridge comprising Julia Disney on keyboards, Odilia Mabrouk on violin, percussionist Lisa Westwood and Jon Hazelwood on bass and guitar with all ...
GEMMA HAYES – Blind Faith (Gemma Hayes Music)
Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes’ (first album in ten years!) Blind Faith bends melodic gravity. Yet paradoxically, it lands with a cover-art cloud of parachuted comfort amid the ...
ALISON McMORLAND – Some Ballads Of Anna Gordon Mrs. Brown Of Falkland (own label AGB01)
My, oh, my. Some Ballads Of Anna Gordon Mrs. Brown Of Falkland is an album that transcends the pieces of plastic that carry it and ...
MAIREARAD GREEN & RACHEL NEWTON – Anna Bhán (Shadowside Records SHADOW06)
There is a story behind this record; a story told in music, song and spoken word. Mairearad and Rachel are cousins although this is their ...
THE LEGENDARY TEN SECONDS – Folk Mellotronica (own label)
A variation on his folktronica approach to traditional folk, as the title suggests this time Ian Churchward has opted to feature the mellotron on the ...
Beans On Toast – new album and tour dates
This 1st December will herald the release of a brand new Beans On Toast album: Wild Goose Chasers. An illuminating insight into what lies ahead, ...
3 Daft Monkeys – new album and tour dates
Information Camouflage, the latest release from 3 Daft Monkeys, is a rich, life-affirming tapestry that masterfully blends world folk inspirations with wild punk-infused energy and ...
COHEN BRAITHWAITE-KILCOYNE – Play Up The Music! (Grimbon GRICD008)
I’ve spoken before about Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne’s rise from folk wunderkind to the youngest elder statesman on the circuit and will no doubt do so again ...
ANGELINE MORRISON – Ophelia (own label AMCD2401)
Originally available via Bandcamp and now getting a pink CD and blue vinyl release, serving as a prelude to next year’s alchemy-themed official follow-up to ...
Le Vent Du Nord visit UK for short tour
The award winning and highly acclaimed Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Québec’s progressive francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws ...
BEAU JENNINGS & THE TIGERS – American Stories Major Chords (Black Mesa Records)
Oklahoma-based act, Beau Jennings & The Tigers return this month with an LP of all-new material, American Stories Major Chords. Coming in at eleven tracks, the ...
Official Folk Albums chart – September 2024
On Tuesday 1 October the Official Charts Company, in partnership with English Folk Expo, revealed the Top 40 best-selling and most streamed folk albums released in the September reporting period in ...
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