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 […]
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 […]
What an incredible thing – to be the inspiration for ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face‘ – and to hear it sung by it’s author Ewan McColl just the once – and that down […]
Nashville singer-songwriter Diana Jones has announced a second UK tour for the album ‘Song to a Refugee‘ that came out last year on Proper Records. The illness-prompted album explored the plight of refugee mothers in the […]
Potentially final album from folk stalwart addresses the ageing process through a family affair. Peggy Seeger is more than just a fixture on the folk scene – at 85 she is releasing what may be her […]
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