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Live Review: An Audience With Mary Chapin Carpenter, Amazing Grace, London – 19th May 2025

May 30, 2025 David Chalfen 1
Amazing Grace is a very new venue for a long-established icon of Americana. A finely converted 19th-century church situated at one side of a quadrangle that covers London Bridge station, The Shard, and Guy’s Hospital, it […]
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Video Premiere: The Often Herd “Cool Summer Rain”

May 30, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the premiere of the latest single from Newcastle-based band The Often Herd. ‘Cool Summer Rain’ is a vibrant, upbeat number that could soundtrack your summer. A beautifully tuneful vocal performance and lush West Coast-style harmonies […]
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Live Review: Boulder Fields, The Bell, Bath – 20th May 2025

May 29, 2025 Tim Martin 0
AUK writer Cam Fraser has a distinguished past playing in several bands and in 2024 he released the first album under the Boulder Fields name. Adding a West Coast sparkle to his unmistakeably Scottish sound, it […]
Andy & Marianne Watkins, live at Nettleham Village Hall, Lincoln - 17th May 2025
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Live Review: Andy Watkins’ Day Of Folk, Celebrating 50 Years As A Promoter, Nettleham Village Hall, Lincoln – 17th May 2025

May 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
The role of a promoter is to market and promote live events which all sounds simple enough. So simple that at times we can all be a little guilty of taking their tireless work and endeavours […]
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Live Review: Katie Pruitt + Henry Grace, Hoxton Hall, London – 16th May 2025

May 23, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
In town to perform in the round at the Highways Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Pruitt played a show the previous night at Hoxton Hall in East London. The venue originally started life as […]

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Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better

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Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0
And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London.  Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]
Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"
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Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

July 15, 2026 1
Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears. Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a […]
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Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

July 15, 2026 0
Park Hills Circle is the solo project of Maris Tierney, and Alaskan-Irish singer-songwriter who lives in Chicago.  She’s just released the debut album All Of A Sudden, and today we have the title track to share.  Maris is […]

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  • Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better
  • Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Carrie Elkin “The Penny Collector” (Independent, 2017)

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This is a highly personal and emotional album from Texan Carrie Elkin. Named in honour of her father who passed away over a year ago and who was a lifelong collector of pennies it is one […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 182 “Well bless my soul…”

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I have discussed the power of live music many times in this column before, as well as my father’s descent into dementia and the sheer joy of the dementia choir that we attend together, run by […]
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Video Premiere: Foy Vance “Malibu Jane”

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Foy Vance’s new album ‘To Memphis‘ is out on September 6th and this is a great live acoustic version of one of the songs from it, recorded at Sun Studios no less.  He’s got UK dates […]

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