Folk icon Woody Guthrie’s ground-breaking 1940 album ‘Dust Bowl Ballads’ has been reimagined by a cross-genre collective of artists selected by Randall Poster in a brand-new release as the record enters its eighty second year. The ability to speak to…
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…
At long last, and very much a favourite of our’s here at FFS, the highly acclaimed Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the first lot of artists set to play this year. Irish-folk royalty: Clannad, playing on Saturday. Hugely successful singer-songwriter:…
Our regular readers will be pleased to hear that Brian’s got himself together now. He’s decided to stop all this wallowing and introversion and turn his thoughts to more important matters. Brian’s as concerned as any of us about the…