Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer

June 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

It has been confirmed that the Gate To Southwell Festival (GTSF) 2024 will be the only chance to catch Rhiannon Giddens performing in the UK this summer. The multi-Grammy award-winning folk, foots and americana star will […]

Folk Roundup – Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Ryan Young, The Rosie Hood Band, Honey And The Bear, Miscellany Of Folk

November 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Here we are with the second edition of Americana UK’s latest roundup of albums that could happier be tagged as Folk than purely as Americana. This month the music is very solidly within the British folksong […]

Live Review: Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Cecil Sharp House, London – 26th October 2023

November 8, 2023 David Chalfen 0

Kathryn Tickell has, down the decades of a 30-year career – her first album released at just 16 years old – been given cultural thumbs up by all the heavyweight Fleet Street broadsheets (younger readers, ask […]

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening “Clogstravaganza” – folk stomp

August 9, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Regular readers will know that we like to feature an Instrumental Track on a Wednesday afternoon if we have something suitable, and that’s something we certainly have today. The name Kathryn Tickell should be a familiar […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

August 6, 2026 0

Here’s the sound of the summer; Marianne is upbeat folk from singer-songwriter Karl Bray. Featuring guitar from Paul Phillips, former member of Pooh Sticks, Marianne opens with a light strum before the song settles into its swaying […]

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer

Folk Roundup – Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Ryan Young, The Rosie Hood Band, Honey And The Bear, Miscellany Of Folk

Live Review: Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Cecil Sharp House, London – 26th October 2023

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening “Clogstravaganza” – folk stomp

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

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

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”