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Cambridge Folk Festival announces second tranche of acts as well as day splits

January 30, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
More exciting names have been announced for Cambridge Folk Festival weekend, Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd August at Cherry Hinton Hall, completing a dazzling and diverse line-up for this year’s event. Second-release tickets go on sale […]
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Interview: Mark Radcliffe talks of songs with ‘Turner-esque skys’, writing surprises and the ‘two-pint axis’

August 27, 2025 Guy Lincoln 2
After a number of false starts, AUK finally managed to sit down for a chat with popular culture polymath (broadcaster, folk-pop/alt-country/electronic musician, author, comedic raconteur, dog whisperer) and all-round good-egg Mark Radcliffe. It might be a […]
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Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

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Fancy some comfort food? This record from a radio DJ and a guitar tutor delivers it by the forkful. Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are two members of the seven-piece americana band FineLines; Boardman being one […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

April 17, 2026 0
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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  • Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Sarah Jarosz “Undercurrent”

December 7, 2022 0
There are plenty of reasons to describe ‘Undercurrent’ as a ‘Classic Americana Album’, but we might as well start with the official ones. In 2016, the album won two Grammys, one for ‘Best Folk Album’ and […]
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Win “The Early Days Of Bluegrass” box-set with AUK

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AUK have managed to get our hands on a copy of the 6 CD box set ‘The Early Days Of Bluegrass’ which we are pleased to offer as a prize in a special competition. The prize […]

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