Fondly known as one of the hardest working duos in the folk music world, John Spiers and Jon Boden were the hit of this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. Their bombastic 11-piece big band Bellowhead played a storming set in the main…
News | Devon Sproule wins our best album poll
Devon Sproule has won our alternative Mercury best album poll The Schmercury Award for her record I Love You, Go Easy’. 1,524 of you chose the Virginian songwriter’s album who beat second place Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go by…
Interview | Schmercury nominee Rachael Dadd
Our final best album nominee Rachael Dadd’s album Bite the Mountain. Reviewer Tom White said: “The record has an understated autumnal air to it, drifting by like the falling leaves and providing a pretty and colourful backdrop.” For Folk’s Sake:…
News | Portraits of Emmy the Great, Iron & Wine, Dan Mangan go on show
Portraits of Emmy the Great, Dan Mangan, Iron & Wine and Anna Calvi feature in London-based figurative painter Joe Simpson’s exhibition ‘Musician Portraits’ opening next month. The paintings will be on display from 14th – 30th October at a temporary…
Listen | Laura Marling in concert on Radio 2
Earlier this week, Laura Marling and her band were invited to BBC Radio 2 to perform a concert at Maida Vale Studios. The band played 15 songs. Most were from new record A Creature I Don’t Know, but the set…
Album | Anna Elias & The Forlorn Hope – The Valleys in the Flatlands
Formerly of Bodixa, Leeds songstress Anna Elias is connecting more fully with folk roots in this new project, which features husband Harvey as well as such luminaries of the UK folk scene as Karine Polwart and Saul Rose and even…