Dean Nardi

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kirsten Haze

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Kirsten Haze has been one half of The Haze and Dacey Collective with John Dacey and supporting musicians. She also plays solo gigs, which is what you are seeing in this instalment of AUK’s Mini-Gig series. […]

Interview: Maya de Vitry on different versions of herself

March 20, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Past, present and future are inseparable in her songs. There is an openness to Maya de Vitry that is refreshing to come by. Formerly in the Stray Birds, a bluegrass band, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania-born musician is […]

Interview: Red Sammy – Songs that sparkle, engage and entangle

March 13, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Songs that dwell in the underbelly of human existence. Sometimes you are hypnotized by how Adam Trice is able to shine a light upon the dark waters of his songs by the way he illuminates a […]

artwork for Journal of Plague Year feature

Classic Americana Albums: Tom Rapp “A Journal of the Plague Year”

March 12, 2025 Dean Nardi 2

A contributory article to an occasional series. Italo Calvino, the eminent Italian writer, once wrote, “The more we think we know the classics through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we […]

Interview: Katie Hartford Hogue on the Fiddle Tunes Project, Julia Belle, John Hartford and the Vortex

March 10, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Furthering John Hartford’s legacy by releasing unheard tunes into the Fiddleverse. This was a wide-ranging conversation with Katie Hartford Hogue talking about her experiences going through her late father John Hartford’s belongings and archives after his […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

September 24, 2026 0

Stephen Eyre is singer and guitarist with South Oxfordshire band Only The Brave. Our Graeme Tait reviewed their debut EP and described them as a band with a bright future in his February EP roundup. Stephen […]

Vox Continental: September 2026

September 24, 2026 0

With the long, hot summer finally fading, it seems like a lot of European artists are keen to get out on tour. Oakland Rain are a Norwegian folk and Americana duo, made up of twin sisters, […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Good Lovelies, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 26th January 2024

February 8, 2024 0

With the bulk of January’s grey days already disappearing in the rear view mirror I made my way for the first time this year to Lincolnshire premier Americana music venue, the Town Hall at Kirton in […]

News

Pick of the Political Pops: Spirit “Nature’s Way”

March 6, 2020 0

Viruses. Tricky little buggers those things. Getting into stuff and causing mischief as they do. Technically they are life forms but even that is doubted by some experts. They have DNA (or RNA) and reproduce but […]

Features

The Song Remains: David Olney – 1948-2020

January 21, 2020 0

The sad death of David Olney has been widely reported, often in some pretty unlikely places (including the S*n, Daily Mail and Daily Express) by a media always looking for a novelty story – ‘folk singer […]

Articles by Dean Nardi

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kirsten Haze

Interview: Maya de Vitry on different versions of herself

Interview: Red Sammy – Songs that sparkle, engage and entangle

Classic Americana Albums: Tom Rapp “A Journal of the Plague Year”

Interview: Katie Hartford Hogue on the Fiddle Tunes Project, Julia Belle, John Hartford and the Vortex

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026

Family Stereo “Remedy” – heartbreak beckons

Video Premiere: Elli de Mon “Strange Fruit”