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Chris While & Julie Matthews, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 25th October 2025
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Live Review: Chris While and Julie Matthews, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th October 2025

November 3, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Making the relatively short, thirty-minute journey from my home in Lincoln, towards the county’s premier americana music venue, the Town Hall in Kirton in Lindsey, I was constantly distracted by the setting sun as it slipped […]
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Live Review: Courtney Marie Andrews + Charlie Jonas Walter, St Mary’s Church – Twyford, Hampshire – 23rd October 2025

October 29, 2025 NickBarber 0
It’s been two long years since Courtney Marie Andrews graced these shores, so it was perhaps unsurprising that her autumn 2025 run of smaller, but characterful venues sold out in short time. The first date of […]
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Live Review: Rod Picott, St Lawrence’s Church Biddulph – 22nd October 2025

October 28, 2025 NickBarber 1
Biddulph is a former mining town on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border and St Lawrence’s Church has a history steeped in folklore – Templar Knights, the English civil war and Viking destruction  – and Victorian secret societies  – […]
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Live Review: Graham Nash + Peter Asher, London Palladium – 19th October 2025

October 24, 2025 Brian Hancill 2
There’s something deeply satisfying about a live show where nearly everyone knows the words and sings along. And by the time Graham Nash left the stage we had sung ourselves hoarse. Looking around the Royal Balcony […]
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Live Review: Jerry Joseph + Ella Spencer, The John Peel Centre, Stowmarket – 12th October 2025

October 22, 2025 John Lee 1
Jerry Joseph can be many things – performer, politician, raconteur. Tonight, he rocked. Tonight, the fire was burning very brightly. Joseph is amazing to see live – full of energy, full of stories and full of […]

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Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”

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Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!

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Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more comes to Liverpool in November – here’s how you can get your tickets

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Last week we announced details of 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 later this year on Saturday November […]
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Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”

April 2, 2026 2
Well that’s it from us for this week as we head into the long weekend. If you’re an AUK supporter your playlist will still be with you for 5pm tomorrow and don’t forget tickets for our […]
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Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!

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If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by […]

  • Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more comes to Liverpool in November – here’s how you can get your tickets
  • Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”
  • Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 5th – Gillian Welch “Revelator” (2001)
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Railroad Earth Songs
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]
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Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
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Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

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When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]

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Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?

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After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]
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Interview: Mike Cooley – Drive By Truckers

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Drive By Truckers released their new album, “American Band”, on September 30th and it is already causing quite a stir, both within their fan base and beyond. The band, fronted by founder members Patterson Hood and […]
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Review: Black Deer Festival 2019, Eridge Park, Sussex

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Update: Apologies for getting the county wrong originally. That’s Northerners writing reviews on Southern events for you. It’s difficult to be interested in americana in 2019 and not feel in some way political – even with […]

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