Findlay Napier And The Bar Room Mountaineers - Reaching new peaks
Findlay Napier is best known for his work with award winning Celtic group Back of the Moon and more recently for Last Night's Fun and Queen Anne's Revenge. However his other highly prized group, The Bar Room Mountaineers, are quickly establishing t...more
27/07/2008
Catriona McKay - Explorer of the Scottish harp
Catriona McKay is a musician and composer born in Dundee, Scotland. She describes herself as 'a fearless contemporary explorer on the Scottish harp'. Having collaborated with folk, jazz, classical and experimental artists one of her latest projects h...more
26/07/2008
Stokes Bay - Great music on the seafront
Stokes Bay provides a wonderful setting for a Festival. The unspoilt coastline near Gosport has stunning views across the Solent and English Channel to the Isle of Wight. As the Festival coincides with the start of the world-famous Cowes Week yachtin...more
25/07/2008
Southern Tenant Folk Union - 'Roots music that knows few boundaries'
Formed by Belfast born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey and taking their name from the ground breaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930’s, the Southern Tenant Folk Union ...more
24/07/2008
Tenby Folk Festival in August
Tenby's Folk Festival arrives at Tenby, Pembrokeshire during August Bank Holiday weekend on the 23rd, 24th, 25th August 2008. The festival intends to showcase the cream of the UK folk and roots scene, mixed among the finest international folk artist...more
23/07/2008
Dead Like Harry - Live on the internet tonight
Tonight Dead Like Harry will be performing a live broadcast on the internet from The Suite studio in Primrose Hill, London. If they play with the passion and flair we witnessed at The Ely Folk Festival last weekend it should be a special night. You c...more
22/07/2008
King Creosote - Trekking round the festivals
King Creosote continue to promote their 'Bombshell' CD on a tour that's trekking round some of the most intriguing festivals the UK has to offer. You can check the latest movements of Creosote main man, Kenny Anderson, over at his Myspace page. His r...more
21/07/2008
The Folk Proms at The Royal Albert Hall
Just a quick reminder that tonight those with a digi-box can enjoy The Folk Proms taking place at The Royal Albert Hall. The live showcase, at 7.30pm, will feature Bellowhead, Bella Hardy and Martin Simpson and it's safe to say that this sort of thin...more
20/07/2008
Cropredy tickets competition, the winners
The competition to win two weekend tickets with camping to Cropredy ended yesterday and we've just picked the winners out of the hat. So hopefully we've made Russell Watson's day as he's the tickets winner with Sheila Coe as runner up winning the 'Se...more
19/07/2008
Bellowhead tour dates and new album
'An exhilarating marriage of chaos and folk' according to The Times, 'Mixing folk, rock, jazz, soul and world music influences with more than a hint of English Music Hall, and a dash of cabaret, they are Arcade Fire, Lotte Lenya and Tom Waits, all ro...more
18/07/2008
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