Twin sisters Sophia and Grace Babb have played music together for years. They especially needed an outlet for their emotions after their father’s suicide. Within a year’s time their friend and violinist, Nia Personette, who had also lost her father,…
Folk artist John Smith is wrapping up with For Folk’s Sake video feature residency with a most lovely performance of “Lord Franklin”. As he tells us, “‘Lord Franklin’ is a song I heard John Renbourn play many times, one that…
Autumn has come. With it, warm shades of yellow, orange, and red drape much of the world in a familiar vibrancy, embracing a chill in the air that some might otherwise clash with come wintertime. It’s all at once that,…
Just a couple of days ago, singer-songwriter John Smith dropped his new album, Hummingbird, for the world to lend its ears to. Replete with resplendent, acoustic storyteller’s music, it’s as much of a heartfelt humdinger as any for the For Folk’s…
As much as they say never to judge a book by its cover, a picture is also worth a thousand words. If these sayings were only meant to cover generalities, then the latter would only be a quarter of the…
Following the release of 2017’s Buffalo Hotel, Geoff Gibbons is freeing himself up on his latest single. This comes quite literally for the Vancouver singer-songwriter, who’s hitting the road on ‘Rollin’ Free’. Instrumentally, the song is an old-school Americana arrangement featuring…