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Inaugural Folk Album Of The Year nominees announced

December 3, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Folk Album of the Year Award has revealed its first-ever shortlist: nine outstanding albums released in Britain and Ireland in 2025. The artists behind each project range in age, geography, background and style — a […]

Live Review: Peggy Seeger, The Haymarket, Basingstoke – 5th June 2025

June 13, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0

Peggy Seeger is a veritable force of nature; there can’t be many 89-year-olds who would set off on an 18-date tour of the UK and Ireland. The undertaking is billed as a “Final Farewell and 90th […]

Peggy Seeger “Teleology”

May 15, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Iconic folk singer bows out in her 90th year on a high We’ve maybe become quite blasé regarding announcements from artists regarding retirement, a final album or tour, only to find them back on the treadmill […]

Live Review: Dawn Landes & Friends, Milton Court, London – 7th September 2024

October 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

No normal gig this, more of an event – with Dawn Landes’s latest album, ‘The Liberated Women’s Songbook‘ at the heart of it. There’s a band, there are supporting singers and musicians and there are little […]

Sonya Cohen Cramer “You’ve Been a Friend to Me”

September 23, 2024 Tim Martin 0

A collection remembering a lesser-known member of the Seeger clan, but with all the talent of her famous family. Sonya Cohen Cramer (1965–2015) came from a family with an impeccable American folk pedigree. Her father was […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 1

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0

“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]