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Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

March 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Cambridge Folk Festival has announced its second tranche of acts for the 2024 event, including several names to whet the appetite of fans of Americana. Following their shows with the 2024 Transatlantic Sessions, banjo/ fiddle […]

Amythyst Kiah set for UK summer dates

June 13, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

A name that’s likely to be relatively new to readers of Americana UK is Amythyst Kiah, who has recently collaborated as part of a feted supergroup of four banjo players under the moniker, Our Native Daughters.

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Something for the weekend: Neal Casal “Someone Else’s Shoes”
Ketch Secor “Story The Crow Told Me”
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Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

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Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a […]

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Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

July 10, 2025 0

North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]

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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

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It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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