August 2025 – Page 8 – Americana UK

Sounds from beyond the Shed 196 “Technical Issues”

August 22, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 2

The discerning readers amongst you will have been religiously listening to the radio broadcast attached below since its inception. Every week, I travel to a radio studio in Milton Keynes and for two hours, I play […]

Joseph Decosimo “Glory in the Meetinghouse” – fierce, unsettled edginess

August 22, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Joseph Decosimo creates a meditative Appalachian mood with his new single ‘Glory in the Meetinghouse’. This fiddle tune is noted as one of the songs that roots music archivist Alan Lomax recorded Luther Strong playing. The […]

Video Premiere: Joe Nolan “Half a Tear, Half a Grin”

August 22, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

Here’s the premiere of the latest video from acclaimed singer-songwriter Joe Nolan, who won a Canadian Folk Music Award last year for his 2023 release “Lost Verses”. ‘Half a Tear, Half a Grin’ is a heartfelt […]

Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

August 21, 2025 Oliver Gray 1

Sedentary performers were prominent at Folk In The Park. Richard Thompson had fallen down some stairs, while Tom Robinson was suffering from a more prosaic hernia. Poor Eddi Reader, meanwhile, had fallen ill but… The Show […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Charming Disaster

August 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

If it was possible to weigh the amount of emails that flood our inbox, you would be safe in assuming we get a ton of requests from artists and their agents – established acts and new […]

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Sam Lewis “Everything’s Fine”

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A gentle soul-searching album that will appeal to fans of John Prine and James Taylor. There are several artists, it seems, who go by the name of Sam Lewis. So, just to be clear, this release, […]

Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances

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Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega continues her successful Flying with Angels Tour, bringing the career-spanning set to new stops in Salisbury, Folkestone, Halifax, and Aylesbury, where she will be joined on stage by her longtime guitarist, Gerry Leonard […]

Nitty Grity Dirt Band from a trade ad November 1976

Classic Clips: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” – 1970

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Over a lengthy career, only now drawing to a close, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are assured of one thing, that their groundbreaking 1972 triple album, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, is their eternal claim to […]

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