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 | Coming soon… For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2012

Guess what folk fans?! We’ll be releasing another album of Christmas music this year. All profits will be donated to the Evelina Children’s Hospital in Central London. News of the artists involved is to come, but for now we can…

News | Anais Mitchell announces London show

Anais Mitchell took to facebook today to announce a gig at London’s Cecil Sharp House, showcasing material from her forthcoming album of traditional folk songs. The Vermont singer told FFS in a recent interview that she would be releasing a…

Playlist | Happy Halloween Folk Fans!

Click here to celebrate the most fun holiday in the Gregorian calendar with a playlist full of (non-rubbish) scary tracks. 1. She Made My Blood Run Cold – Ike Turner 2. Monster Mash – The Beach Boys 3. The Frighteners…

Blog | For Folk’s Sake on 6 Music’s Now Playing

Tom Robinson and his team kindly invited us to pick some tracks for his Now Playing show tonight. It’s always so exciting to get to work with 6 Music. The station does such a wonderful service for new music, and…

Exclusive | Stream Tamarin’s beautiful debut album Shake the Ghost

We’re very excited to be able to bring you the debut album from Philidelphia indie-folk quintet Tamarin. Tamarin formed when songwriter Alex Malamy spent the summer of 2008 in Tuscany, documenting his thoughts in songs. On returning to New York, he…

Stream | Debut album from Lucy Rose – Like I Used To

Like I Used To is the debut album from For Folk’s Sake favourite Lucy Rose. Haling from Warwickshire, we first heard Lucy when she leant her vocals to Bombay Bicycle Club, on their 2010 album Flaws. She has since released…

Interview | Introducing Foreign Fields

We are Foreign Fields. A duo from Wisconsin who decided to represent a year of their lives in the form of an album. We tend to blend the musical genres that inspire us most, folk, classical, and electronic. We now play out as a group of 5 guys trying to achieve the most emotionally true performance that we can.