“Music is mathematics. You can actually learn about the science of how arpeggios affect your nervous system. Music is so undervalued. It can be life-changing.” – Eliza Carthy To be honest, if you’re reading this review on For Folk’s Sake,…
Now in its 52nd year, the festival has completely sold out for the 23rd year in a row. While probably not the most famous festival in the UK’s summer line-up, it does have a long, rich history of stellar line-ups…
“Separation” is a much broader term than most of us would give it credit for. While it would most certainly immediately be taken on as an inference towards a partition of physical or communicative value, the word could also successfully…
Still got money to burn after reading part one of our shopping guide? Then step this way. We’ll help you spend it. PLEASE NOTE: The prices are the ones we’ve been given – but please don’t blame us if things…
Imagined Village are a force of nature, but is it folk? With their third album, Bending The Dark, the link with the Tradition becomes even more tenuous, and this is a band that defies glib pigeon-holing. With its roots in…
If the traditional folk scene is having a good year in 2011, I think it’s fair to say that Eliza Carthy is having a bloody great one. She’s riding on the success of her best album to date, Neptune, and…
Win tickets & albums by the Leisure Society, Stornoway, Ellen and the Escapades, The Travelling Band and Eliza Carthy
For those young adults (like myself) who grew up listening to traditional folk music it feels quite surreal, even disarmingly uncomfortable, to have to weave into an Eliza Carthy review a brief description of the artist herself, of where she…
Sarabeth Tucek has been added to the line-up for the Wood Festival, joining the likes of Willy Mason, Eliza Carthy and Treetop Flyers at the Oxfordshire event next month. Also added to the bill are Zeus and Michele Stodart from…