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Red Rooster Festival announces second wave of acts

February 17, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Red Rooster Festival in Euston Hall, Suffolk has announced its second wave of acts, including a UK festival exclusive from Asleep At The Wheel who celebrate their 50th Anniversary. The festival is also set to include […]
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Track Dogs kick off tour in support of new album ‘Fire on the Rails’

February 14, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Genre-crossing, Madrid-based Irish-English-American quartet, Track Dogs, have announced tour dates starting this Friday through to February 29th, in support of their acclaimed new album, ‘Fire On The Rails’.
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Black Deer add Robert Plant’s band to their line up

February 10, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Black Deer Festival’s line up for 2020 is already looking good, having as they do Wilco, The Waterboys, The Dead South, Courtney Marie Andrews and The Felice Brothers all playing over the course of the weekend, […]
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Cambridge Folk Festival announce first artists

February 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
With the tickets for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival having gone on sale on the 10th of December last year it’s too late to say “this seems to come around earlier every year”.  And anyway, who […]
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Hear Her Voice: Danni Nicholls announces UK Spring dates

February 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
With the wind in her sails from receiving three consecutive Americana Music Association UK award nominations (Album, Artist and Song of the year in 2017, 2018 & 2020 respectively) singer-songwriter Danni Nicholls has been an americana […]

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Save the date – Americana 25 will celebrate 25 years of Americana UK in Liverpool in November!

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AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]
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There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up to […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – March 2026

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Here we are in March, and spring has well and truly sprung in this part of the northern hemisphere, after what had felt like endless weeks of grey days and continuous precipitation. So, what better way […]

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  • Katherine Priddy “These Frightening Machines”
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  • Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck to release traditional collaboration in May 2026
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 0
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Video: The Pine Hearts “Living With Depression”

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From their new album, Carousel, Washington’s Pine Hearts cover a subject that is too often taboo.  A fine song and a fine band, they should be in the UK in 2019.
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Interview – Amy Boone

September 17, 2019 1
When Delines singer Amy Boone was hit by a car in a devastating freak accident in April 2016, it looked like her singing and touring career might well be over. Indeed, Willy Vlautin the band’s engine […]
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Sean Taylor “Short Stories”

August 8, 2023 0
Blues-influenced americana with poetic lyrics. London singer-songwriter Sean Taylor has plied his trade for the last two decades, spending a lot of this time on the road. He has supported acts such as Robert Cray, John […]

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