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artwork for Amy Speace album "The American Dream"

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

October 29, 2024 Chas Lacey 1

Songs of innocence and experience form a poetic musical memoir. Amy Speace will be familiar to many as the winner of the UK Americana Music Association’s 2020 International Song of the Year Award for ‘Me and […]

Folk Roundup – Rakish, Hannah O’Brian and Grant Flick, Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton, River Drivers, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’ Leary, June Tabor & The Oysterband

October 28, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Welcome – or should that be fáilte? – to another edition of the folk roundup column. You may notice that there is a bit of an Irish theme this time around, not planned ’tis just the […]

Malachy Tallack's That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz

Malachy Tallack “That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz”

October 28, 2024 Declan Colley 0

High-concept Shetland Americana. It’s a tricky one to pull off: a multi-media concept album/novel with potential for a film whose soundtrack has already been established. Such high-concept projects are a relative rarity in the Americana realm […]

Amanda Rheaume live at the Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire, - 19th October 2024

Live Review: Amanda Rheaume + Sharon Maher, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 19th October 2024

October 28, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

The ‘Super-Moon’ hovered majestically above the Village Hall in North Newbald, shining its light like a beacon for tonight’s congregation made up of both locals and travellers, all full of anticipation and excitement for the pending […]

artwork for "Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin'" Tribute to Don Hetherington

Various Artists “Tonight I’ll Go Down Swingin’: A Tribute to Don Heffington”

October 28, 2024 David Jarman 0

Legendary drummer and songwriter Don Heffington receives a fitting tribute from the cream of Americana artists. When drummer and songwriter Don Heffington passed away in March 2021 he left a remarkable musical legacy. A founding member […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 0

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

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 […]