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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Lutterworth – 22nd-24th August 2025

September 25, 2025 David Jarman 0
My preview of a couple of weeks back noted that the Long Road Festival is an annual fixture in my diary, and this year‘s line-up promised much. The festival now boasts six stages – adding the […]
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Live Review: Bonnie Dobson and The Hanging Stars + Black Magick Caravan, Norwich Arts Centre – 10th July 2025

July 24, 2025 John Lee 2
Partnerships in music, like food, can be intriguing. Some combinations seem inseparable, like rhubarb and custard. Others are effortlessly natural, like strawberries and cream. Some create something unexpectedly wonderful, like strawberries and balsamic vinegar (try it […]
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Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars announce new album “Dreams”

April 22, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
The Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson is renowned for her purity of voice. Composer of the ever-fresh ’Morning Dew’, she was once at the heart of the Greenwich Village heyday when she sang at Gerdes Folk […]

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Video Premiere: Mikey Wayne “First Kiss” (Echo Mountain Sessions)

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The latest video from Mikey Wayne is a heartfelt ballad that takes us on a nostalgic journey back in time to memories of a first kiss and the passion and promise felt as emotions are stirred.  […]
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With the release of his fifth album, ‘Love Valley’, Canadian singer-songwriter, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald has created a wistful dream of an imagined life that is both personal and universal. The songs could be described as a […]

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