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Small Venue Heroes: The Carrivick Sisters

June 14, 2022 Tim Martin 1
The pressures of touring are hard enough in ‘normal’ times, but with added Covid it has been doubly hard for musicians playing any size of venue. After I reviewed their show in Bristol last October, the […]
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Jake Bugg announced as latest act joining Black Deer Festival 2022

November 25, 2021 Emily Dongray 0
Black Deer Festival organisers have announced more acts for their three-day festival. The event will return to Erridge Park, Kent, in June 2022 after two pandemic-related postponements. New additions to the 2022 lineup include: Pokey LaFarge, […]
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Live Review: Midnight Skyracer, St Georges Bristol – 14th October 2021

November 2, 2021 Tim Martin 1
Over the last year or so it was inevitable that some great music would slip under the radar. In 2018 AUK’s Jeremy Searle predicted great things for Midnight Skyracer, and then the trail went cold. Following […]
Live Reviews

Cam Penner + Midnight Skyracer @Celtic Connections, Royal Concert Hall New Auditorium, Glasgow, 18th January 2020

January 23, 2020 Paul Kerr 0
AUK’s first jaunt at 2020’s Celtic Connections took us to the grand concert hall in the city centre to see a one off show by Canadian Cam Penner and his erstwhile sidekick Jon Wood. It’s a […]

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Something for the weekend: Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel “Flying Things (Feat. The Secret Sisters)”

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Sam Lewis “Everything’s Fine”

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Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances

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Classic Clips: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” – 1970

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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of weekend tickets to see Katherine Priddy live

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Something for the weekend: Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel “Flying Things (Feat. The Secret Sisters)”

March 6, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm as always, but in the meantime we leave you dear reader with a beautiful […]
Album Reviews

Sam Lewis “Everything’s Fine”

March 6, 2026 0
A gentle soul-searching album that will appeal to fans of John Prine and James Taylor. There are several artists, it seems, who go by the name of Sam Lewis. So, just to be clear, this release, […]
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Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances

March 6, 2026 0
Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega continues her successful Flying with Angels Tour, bringing the career-spanning set to new stops in Salisbury, Folkestone, Halifax, and Aylesbury, where she will be joined on stage by her longtime guitarist, Gerry Leonard […]

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  • Sam Lewis “Everything’s Fine”
  • Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances
  • Classic Clips: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” – 1970
  • Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of weekend tickets to see Katherine Priddy live
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 1
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

March 2, 2026 0
Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

February 26, 2026 0
I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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Caroline Spence “Mint Condition” (Rounder Records, 2019)

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One of the most exciting “new” artists on the Americana scene, Caroline Spence has been making great music for some years now and ‘Mint Condition’ is her third album. It seems hard to believe she’s racking […]
Album Reviews

Thisell “II” (Jelly Fant Records, 2016)

November 15, 2016 0
If you are into art leaning mystical, sometimes dark and out there music chances are you will enjoy this. Such are the innovative arrangements and beauty of the work performed by Swedish singer-songwriter Peter Thisell , who […]
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Video: Lisa Akuah “Natural Worrier”

May 22, 2020 0
Lisa Akuah has a lovely, clear voice and an ear for an engaging melody.  ‘Natural Worrier’ is the newly released single from the Berlin singer-songwriter.  Layers of guitar and cello give depth to this folk ballad […]

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