Joshua Burnside

There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

July 31, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Correspondent and promoter Oliver Gray recommends an attractive festival that will entertain rather than overwhelm. It’s called Found, and it takes place this August Bank Holiday and is attracting some very classy acts indeed. “The band […]

Joshua Burnside “It’s Not Going To Be Okay”

April 24, 2026 Paul Russell 0

A searing display of grief through ten bare songs. How we all cope with grief is complex and individual, though the ability of energising one’s sadness through music is a powerful and positive one. Belfast’s Joshua […]

Inaugural Folk Album Of The Year nominees announced

December 3, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Folk Album of the Year Award has revealed its first-ever shortlist: nine outstanding albums released in Britain and Ireland in 2025. The artists behind each project range in age, geography, background and style — a […]

artwork for Joshua Burnside album "Teeth of Time"

Joshua Burnside “Teeth of Time”

April 3, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

An innovative electronica-infused approach to melodic Irish folk. The upward trajectory of Belfast-based Joshua Burnside has been well-documented in the pages of AMA UK, such that many readers will be familiar with his brand of electronica-infused […]

Folk Tracks Roundup, October 2024

October 31, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

We’re not going to regale you with a whole bunch of Halloween themed folk songs – on the grounds that we haven’t exactly been swamped with them. Somewhat of a surprise, but perhaps a lot of […]

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