Richard Parkinson

Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival 2024 announces full list of acts

May 28, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Rotterdam Bluegrass Festval has announced the full list of acts playing the three-day event at the end of June. Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival is an easy-going and inclusive festival focusing on bluegrass and other forms of […]

Lake Street Dive announce new album and UK and European shows

May 22, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Lake Street Dive, the Boston soul-flecked americana band, has announced the release of a new album ‘Good Together’ via Fantasy Records on 21st June 2024 along with a series of dates in the UK and Europe […]

Helen Rose returns with new album “Rugged Elegance”

May 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Singer-songwriter Helen Rose has announced the release of her latest album ‘Rugged Elegance’ which will be issued via Clover Music Group on 12th July 2024. It comes six years after its predecessor ‘Trouble Holding Back’; Rose […]

Steep Canyon Rangers announce the release of “Live at Greenfield Lake”

May 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Steep Canyon Rangers have announced the release of ‘Live at Greenfield Lake’, the band’s first live album of original material, recorded at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater in Wilmington, NC on 29th September 2023. The album will be […]

Ron Sexsmith announces pair of 60th birthday UK shows

May 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

“I’m definitely going to have the brakes on all year because I don’t want 60 to come too fast, haha, “ said Ron Sexsmith when interviewed by AUK’s Martin Johnson in early 2023. Now, after sixty […]

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Ole Kirkeng “Cowboy Lie Detector Machine”

April 9, 2026 0

Norway’s Ole Kirkeng returns with an impressive collection, no lies. Recorded at the Rockbonden Studio in the snow-covered forests of Sweden, Norway’s Ole Kirkeng stands trial under the Cowboy Lie Detector Machine. Kirkeng was a touring […]

Rose Hotel “My Satellite” – gone up to the sky

April 9, 2026 0

In normal times what would we all be talking about, other than the fact that after a hiatus of more than 50 years the old gang has got back together, pulled in an extra Canadian and […]

Video: Hollie Rogers “Everything’s Fine” Feat. Elles Bailey & Beth Nielsen Chapman – life in all its messy, unpredictable moments

April 9, 2026 0

In one of the best videos we’ve seen this year, Hollie Rogers presents a training module to teach us how to pretend that everything is fine. Some wonderfully-ridiculous snippets of advice crawl across the screen, encouraging […]

Articles by Richard Parkinson

Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival 2024 announces full list of acts

Lake Street Dive announce new album and UK and European shows

Helen Rose returns with new album “Rugged Elegance”

Steep Canyon Rangers announce the release of “Live at Greenfield Lake”

Ron Sexsmith announces pair of 60th birthday UK shows

Ole Kirkeng “Cowboy Lie Detector Machine”

Rose Hotel “My Satellite” – gone up to the sky

Video: Hollie Rogers “Everything’s Fine” Feat. Elles Bailey & Beth Nielsen Chapman – life in all its messy, unpredictable moments

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