Pockinton (about 13 miles east of York) is the host for Platform Festival, running over 4 days from the 12th to 16th July. Held indoors in an old railway station, the festival features a number of FFS favourites, opening with…
Gretchen Peters’ Blackbirds is bookended by two songs of the same name. The opener is electric and confrontational, the closer a milder and softer reprise. Powered by Peters’ voice – lived-in, loaded, tainted with regret – the chorus of the…
This is Gretchen Peters’ first appearance on FFS, and she’s most decidedly at the country end of our folk spectrum (if you remember Faith Hill, she wrote a song for her in the 90s). She’s lived in Nashville since the…