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Live Review: Transatlantic Sessions 2025, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sunday 9th February 2025

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
Over the last thirty years, growing out of BBC sessions and star spots at Celtic Connections, Transatlantic Sessions have become – to borrow from Chesterton – The Flying Folk Club.  And not just as a travelling […]
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JD Clayton “Blue Sky Sundays”

February 27, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Clayton celebrates the land and music that raised him, and the joy in his growing family. No, not that JD. Singer-songwriter JD Clayton has returned for his sophomore album twinged with a little more blues sound […]
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Vox Continental – a new feature from Rick Bayles launches today!

February 27, 2025 Rick Bayles 0
Following on from our recent ‘Continental Shift’ series of features on americana music in continental Europe, we’re launching a new monthly column, Vox Continental. This column is designed to be a round-up of americana activity in […]
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Edith Frost “In Space”

February 27, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
Back after a break of almost 20 years, Edith Frost returns with an atmospheric album of great songs. Noted tunesmith Edith Frost describes her music as “pensive countrified psychedelia“. Throughout her career, Frost has never been […]
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Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill “Come to Me” – coming together again, maybe 

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill’s new single, ‘Come to Me”  is a track off the married couple’s debut album, ‘Long After The Fire’, produced and engineered by Paul Allen and coming out via Label 51 Recordings. […]

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Americana 25 festival comes to Liverpool in November with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more!

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We are mightily delighted to announce today full details for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House on Saturday […]
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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Carlisle’s Hardwicke Circus have announced the release of their latest album “Cumbria Pizza” on 29th November 2024 on their own Alternative Facts Records in vinyl, CD and digital formats. The record is an unplugged album, recorded […]

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