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Award-winning radio presenter Mike Ritchie to broadcast 400th show this weekend

March 3, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
Former twice winner of Americana UK Reader’s Poll for best Radio Show, Mike Ritchie, presenter of the Sunday Show on Celtic Music Radio, will broadcast his 400th show this weekend. Beginning in August 2014, the country, […]
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Rodney Crowell announces new Jeff Tweedy produced album “The Chicago Sessions” – Listen

March 3, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
New West Records have announced the release of a new album by Rodney Crowell, ‘The Chicago Sessions’ which lands on May 5th, 2023, via New West Records. The 10-song set was produced by Jeff Tweedy and […]
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Billy Bragg to release fourteen disc box set to celebrate 40 years of music

March 2, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
Punk rocker, folk singer, Skiffle aficionado, protest singers’ protest singer, lefty polemicist, author, singer and AUK favourite Billy Bragg will release a career-spanning compendium entitled ‘The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023‘ on 27th October on Cooking Vinyl. […]
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Will Sheff of Okkervil River has a solo tour

March 1, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
And it starts in the UK tomorrow. Will Sheff has been working on solo material alongside such collaborators as guitarist Will Graefe and bassist Benjamin Lazar Davis as well as new collaborators Christian Lee Hutson, Dawes […]
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Van Morrison tickets for London Summer show on sale this Friday

March 1, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
The legend that is Van Morrison has announced a show at the Royal Albert Hall on June 28th, 2023. This show will include old favourites and songs from his new album ‘Moving On Skiffle’. Tickets go […]

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