Aoife O’Donovan

I’m With Her announce second album “Wild and Clear and Blue”

March 6, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Folk supergroup I’m With Her have announced their return this Spring with a stunning new record entitled “Wild and Clear and Blue”, which is out on 9th May 2025 via Rounder Records. The all-star trio comprises […]

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

December 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2

Stones dot the landscape, marks of older times now gone but vaguely recalled or at least felt subconsciously, a connection made through elapsed years. And the annual Track roundup is a bit like that as well […]

Video Review of the Year 2024

December 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year. Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one. An election in the UK gave me some hope. An election […]

Crossing stormy waters – I’m With Her return with UK and Netherlands dates

December 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

It’s not often that the supergroup tag is justified but when it comes to I’m With Her it’s right on the money. Each of the members is an A list performer in her own right – […]

Video: Aoife O’Donovan with the National Symphony Orchestra “All My Friends”

December 5, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Just wow. Aoife O’Donovan’s rendition of “All My Friends” with the National Symphony Orchestra is simply gorgeous. The Crooked Still and I’m With Her GRAMMY-winning vocalist delivers an incredible performance, full of heart and spellbinding, timeless […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

I’m With Her announce second album “Wild and Clear and Blue”

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

Video Review of the Year 2024

Crossing stormy waters – I’m With Her return with UK and Netherlands dates

Video: Aoife O’Donovan with the National Symphony Orchestra “All My Friends”

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween

Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side