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Cam Penner has lucky escape after flying home from Glasgow

January 22, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Well this is a hairy story. Canadian singer-songwriter Cam Penner, who was one of the visiting attractions at this year’s Celtic Connections festival and last weekend had a show in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, has shared […]
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Jerry Leger takes time out for UK tour

January 22, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Canadian singer-songwriter, Jerry Leger, is someone who has been on our radar since the release of his excellent double album, ‘Nonsense and Heartache’ which first came out in Europe on Michael Timmins’ label, Latent Recordings, in […]
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Ron Sexsmith has new music and a UK tour

January 21, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1
Entering his 25th year as a recording artist, Ron Sexsmith returns in 2020 with a new album called ‘Hermitage‘.   It was recorded in Sexsmith’s living room in his new home of Stratford Ontario, having moved from […]
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Ramblin’ Roots Revue returns! Here’s the full line-up

January 20, 2020 Mark Underwood 2
The always excellent Ramblin’ Roots festival has announced its line-up for 2020, a 3-day event which takes place from April 24th to 26th at Bucks Student Union in High Wycombe. Now in its fourth year, The […]
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Watch Yola’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

January 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
We are collectively big fans of Yola here at AUK as she swept the board for our readers poll in 2019 on the back of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Walk Through Fire’ which is brimming […]

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Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

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Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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We leave you this weekend dear reader with a lovely video from the lovely man singer-songwriter Joshua Radin for his song ‘Here, Right Now’, the title track from his upcoming full-length album due out 4th October […]
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Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”

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An excellent reclamation of far-scattered folk songs. On his second album, Edinburgh’s Sam Shackleton continues to display his love of and mastery of American folk music while infusing it with an unmistakable Scottish presence. His debut […]
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Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time”

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Indie rock with a new wave edge finds a band that’s invigorated on their sixth release. Time felt a little different for Australian indie band Boy & Bear when they were working on their sixth studio […]

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