Author: Lynn Roberts

Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.

News | New Nancy Elizabeth music + free download

Long-time favourite here at FFS, Nancy Elizabeth has announced that she’s releasing her third album after a Hiatus. The Manchester-based artist is giving away a free track ‘The Last Battle’. Listen and download it here. The Last Battle by Nancy…

News | Johnny Flynn to star in film with Anne Hathaway

BIG NEWS: Johnny Flynn is to star in US film ‘Song One’ with Anne Hathaway. Johnny will play a rock star who Anne’s character falls in love with. The film was written and will be directed by Kate Barker-Froyland. He…

News | Leisure Society playlists and single news

The Leisure Society’s third album Alone Aboard the Ark is due for release on April 1st on the excellent Full Time Hobby. The first single to be taken from it is ‘Fight For Everyone’, which will be hitting the shops on 25 March.

News | HMV employee live-tweets mass firing

An HMV employee took to the company’s official twitter account today to live-tweet the HR process that s/he claimed resulted in 60 people being ‘fired’.

See the story unfold here.

News | Och that’s nice! Glasgow hosts R2 Folk Awards

Lots of FFS’s favourites were honoured in Radio Two’s annual Folk Awards in Glasgow last night. Among the winners were Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman who won Best Duo, Lau were named best group and Roy Harper was given a…

Vinyl | Our top albums for analog.am

When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion. There is nothing Team FFS likes more than…