Lynne Hanson

Lynne Hanson to tour UK in early Spring

January 9, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

The award-winning Canadian Americana singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson has announced a UK tour for Spring 2025 in support of her latest release “Just A Poet.” The twice Canadian Folk Music Award winner will begin at Shoreham’s Ropetackle […]

Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 4th-8th October 2023

September 27, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

One of our favourite americana festivals Glasgow Americana returns next month from 4th-8th October 2023 The line up consists of 9 shows over 5 different spaces throughout Glasgow and brings together talent performers from Scotland, England, […]

Lynne Hanson announces UK tour dates

August 3, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Award-winning Canadian Americana songwriter Lynne Hanson has announced a UK tour for October, as a duo with guitarist Blair Michael Hogan (who you can see in action in the wonderful clip below). The two-time Canadian Folk […]

Live Review: Lynne Hanson, Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 2nd April 2022

April 13, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

Learning to appreciate that which has been taken away from us is a lesson we’ve all had to learn in one way or another over the last couple of years, but the taste is all the […]

Video Premiere: Lynne Hanson “Hip Like Cohen”

February 23, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Taking Leonard Cohen as inspiration, the new single from Ottawa-based Lynne Hanson is an upbeat, feel-good song that will leave you smiling. Phil Shaw Bova’s foot-tapping percussion and Blair Michael Hogan’s pulsing bass give the song […]

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March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Lynne Hanson to tour UK in early Spring

Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 4th-8th October 2023

Lynne Hanson announces UK tour dates

Live Review: Lynne Hanson, Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 2nd April 2022

Video Premiere: Lynne Hanson “Hip Like Cohen”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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