Polly Paulusma’s new album, Wildfires, goes against the grain. In an age of limited attention spans and content digested in quick doses, she has released a sprawling collection; 19 songs, each with a prologue that runs anywhere from 45-seconds to…
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…
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Rach: We are Stylusboy, a folkish pop duo from Coventry! Steve: People have compared us to The Civil Wars, Lady Antebellum and The Swell Season. We have been around for…
The Pollyanna Band is a collaboration between Polly Paulusma and Annie Dressner or, we prefer to think of them, ‘a coming together of two titans.’ Make them your favourite new band of 2014. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music…
It’s a quiet Monday night in Soho and we somehow find ourselves at what must surely be the most exclusive gig in town. We arrive in time for folk stalwart, Polly Paulusma, the small British girl with a southern American…
Thursday sees the equivalent of a religious holiday for the folk world kick off as the Cambridge Folk Festival opens for its 48th year. One of the longest-running in the UK, the CFF was first held in 1965 and featured…