Invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter is a literary, clever, erudite, elegantly crafted offering from Polly Paulusma. We are presented with a cornucopia rich in poetic images, harmonies and delightful performances. Interspersed with extracts from Angela Carter’s sublime…
FFS is delighted to bring you the video premiere for Kathryn Williams new single ‘Mirrors’. Due for released on 8th July, ‘Mirrors’ is the first single from Kathryn’s Sylvia Plath-inspired album Hypoxia. The album is based on Plath’s novel The…
The brilliant Kathryn Williams has been a favourite at FFS for years and years. From her Mercury-nominated second record, to last year’s captivating album Crown Electric and her delightfully lugubrious Christmas song ‘Christmas In Hell‘, we thought we couldn’t love her more.…
Folk star Kathryn Williams hit out at Spotify this morning, calling the music streaming service the ‘Starbucks of music’. Kathryn’s comments on twitter were in response to an episode of Radio 4 programme In Business about the music industry. Listen here. She…
It’s Monday evening and we find ourselves shoulder-to-shoulder with an invite-only crowd, in a gorgeous, Georgian townhouse, hot under the collar and eagerly awaiting three carefully handpicked musicians to show us what they’re made of…It can only be another Society…
Kathryn Williams & The Pond really want you to sign up for their mailing list. To demonstrate just how keen they are, the band are running a special competition, offering a lucky handful of the newly registered the chance to…
I saw Kathryn Williams live in the summer of 2009 at Stockton-on-Tees’ wonderful free festival. The Futureheads had just finished an excellent main stage set, finishing in signature fashion by splitting the crowd down the middle to sing the harmonies…
Kathryn Williams will return with a new album in May that promises to be a departure from her earlier work. Williams has teamed up with Simon Edwards and Ginny Clee to form “The Pond”, which is described as, er, a…
First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLK FANS! I hope you’re reading this full up and content. Secondly, I’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has contributed to, bought and supported For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011.…
In need of a last-minute Christmas present for a music lover? We’ve made the cover of our festive compilation album For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 available to download so you can make your own copies. Here’s the plan… 1. Go to…