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…
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 | 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…
Artist blog | Emily Barker on the Revival Tour
Our favourite Australian songstress Emily Barker is on the road as part of the revival tour. It’s a five week European jaunt with a slew of other artists, full of collaboration, covers and singalongs. Emily’s agreed to blog about the…
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…
Interview | Anais Mitchell talks proper folk, Hadestown, and thinking like a man
After 2010’s triumphant folk opera Hadestown, it was hard to see where Anais Mitchell had left to go. And with Young Man In America, she’s taken it down a notch: quieter and more introspective, it’s Young Man‘s characters that make…
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.
For Folk’s Sake presents Mary Epworth at the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room
We at For Folk’s Sake are delighted to announce our show at the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room on 20th October, headlined by the wonderful Mary Epworth. There will be support from two more of our favourite artists – Gerard…