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Rachel Kane “Holler at the Wind”

April 2, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Assured acoustic folk full of wisdom and melody. After two decades away from music Rachel Kane, who is from Neil Young’s birth city of Winnipeg, Canada, returns to a much altered world: for one thing, she’s […]
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The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”

April 1, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Two’s company, but three’s a crowd, especially when the third is the devil. “Spirits” is the first new album in seven years by the genre-bending Americana band the Devil Makes Three, their long-awaited follow-up to the […]
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Moss Henry “Gone Away”

April 1, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Newcomer Moss Henry delivers fresh authenticity. You don’t normally get country music coming out of the Caribbean. But in a dispatch from the US Virgin Islands comes the debut album of Moss Henry, a rugged new […]
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Live Review: Red Sky July, + Tony Beacock, St Nicholas Church, Beverley – 21st March 2025

April 1, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
The venue for this evening’s concert, St Nicholas Church, Beverley, can trace its origins back to at least the 12th century, possibly of Norman architecture, though by 1655 the original building had fallen into disrepair, partly […]
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Folk Roundup – Daria Kulesh, Lush “In the Bath” Compilation, Kristin Daelyn, Pedair, Ainsley Hamill

March 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, well, well – it seems that there is a larger amount of Welsh folk being produced than we’d previously suspected, and we have a couple more samples on this month’s Folk Roundup.  Alongside that there’s […]

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