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).
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 ...
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 ...
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