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Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Empire, London – 26th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2

It’s a cliché but none the less true, that all good things have to come to an end and their annual awards show is the capping event of the Americana Music Association UK’s annual conference, held […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week, Loose Music Takeover @The AMAUK Showcase, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London – 24th January 2023

February 2, 2023 KC Vines 0

Remember live indoor music festivals, the ones that get held in the winter, when it’s raining or snowing outside? January ‘21 and ’22 put paid to these. They got replaced by the online “live” performances that […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week 2023, Hackney, London – 24th – 27th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Peter Feldon 0

Kick Off Party, Night Tales, 24th February This event got off to a cracking start with live music from previous winners of the Bob Harris Emerging artist award. The excellent Lauren Housley was up first with […]

Americana Music Association UK Awards Launch Party, Omerea, London 8th November 2022

November 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

As you can probably imagine, dear regular reader, there is little in this world that Americana UK enjoys more than a party – a bowl of jelly and cream and a lukewarm Vimto is a second […]

UK Americana Music Week is cancelled – thank you Omicron

January 7, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

The pandemic has claimed one of its first musical victims of the year, which is sadly for us UK Americana Music Week. In a statement from Stevie Smith & The AMA UK Board and Event team, […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers