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Newcastle’s Bright Red Festival announces date and line-up for 2024

May 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The Bright Red Festival has announced it will be taking a place at The Cluny in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 16th August 2024 from 14:00 to 23:00. The Bright Red Music festival features an eclectic array of talent […]
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Katherine Priddy announces 2025 dates as the pendulum keeps swinging upwards!

May 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
The brilliant Katherine Priddy is keeping the momentum going following her recent album release and tour success by booking more dates for your diaries. The highly fought-over AUK competition prize of two tickets to one of […]
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Alberta Cross to release re-imagined “The Thief and The Heartbreaker”

May 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Alberta Cross have announced plans to release a reworked version of their  2007 debut ‘’The Thief and The Heartbreaker’’ later this year featuring a wealth of musical collaborations from as yet unnamed friends (with one notable […]
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Leif Vollebekk announces new album and UK/Europe tour dates

May 29, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has announced his new album, ‘Revelation’, which is set to be released on 27th September 2024 on Secret City Records. The new release will be available in digital, CD and […]
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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 […]

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet to Americana 25, our festival taking place in Liverpool at the end of November, we have sold out around half of […]
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As Graeme Tait takes an enforced break he kindly asked me to step in this month to produce our monthly EP Roundup. I think he knows he has no fears about my contributions matching his excellent […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Hannah White “Chain Of Ours” – Listen

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It’s been a good year for Hannah White, who won the song of the year award from the Americana Music Association UK back in January.  She returns today with a new song from her latest album […]
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Interview: Canadian Justin Rutledge on revisiting and simplifying his greatest songs

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Despite a literary background songwriter Justin Rutledge now believes simple songs work best. Justin Rutledge owes the UK a lot in that it was the UK success of his debut album ‘No Never Alone’ that really […]
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The Song Remains: Raul Malo (1965 – 2025)

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Farewell to the greatest voice in modern popular music Raul Malo has died, at the ridiculously young age of 60.  The son of Cuban emigrants who could sing virtually anything with ease and conviction will no […]

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