David Chalfen

Live Review: Zachary Lucky, Green Note, London – 12th October 2025

October 21, 2025 David Chalfen 1

A classic troubadour from the Canadian Prairies, Zachary Lucky’s autumn tour covers the UK, Belgium and Holland. Raised in Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, he shares this native town with the likes of Deep Dark Woods, Kacy and […]

Live Review: Gemma Hayes + Lily Lyons, St Pancras Old Church – London 4th September 2025

September 16, 2025 David Chalfen 0

This is the first of three sold out nights at this venue and just down the road at the less overtly spiritual Lexington. It’s billed as a residency and in a week when there’s a political […]

Live Review: Madison Violet, Lexington, London – 31st July 2025

August 11, 2025 David Chalfen 1

The duo of Lisa MacIsaac and Brenley MacEachern have clocked up 25 years as Madison Violet and have picked up numerous awards in their Canadian homeland. So, it’s a momentous decision to call it quits at […]

Live Review: I’m With Her + Keenan O’Meara, Barbican, London – 29th May 2025

June 10, 2025 David Chalfen 2

This trio – Sarah Jarosz, Sarah Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan – always create a buzz ahead of their appearances. The supergroup descriptor is overused, but it is undeniably true in this case from whatever angle you […]

Live Review: An Audience With Mary Chapin Carpenter, Amazing Grace, London – 19th May 2025

May 30, 2025 David Chalfen 1

Amazing Grace is a very new venue for a long-established icon of Americana. A finely converted 19th-century church situated at one side of a quadrangle that covers London Bridge station, The Shard, and Guy’s Hospital, it […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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