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Kate Rusby announces 30th-anniversary album and extensive tour

March 22, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Kate Rusby has announced her 30th-anniversary album ’30: Happy Returns‘ will be released on May 6th on Pure Records. Her 30-year career has seen Rusby release nineteen albums, net a Mercury Music Prize in 1999, and […]

Moseley Folk & Arts Festival 2021 set for first weekend of September

July 5, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

It’s good to see that for all the cancellations, there are some end of summer festivals which are still happening this year, one of which is the perfectly-curated Moseley Folk & Arts Festival which takes place […]

Interview: Lauren Housley on her Northern and americana roots

April 21, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How AMAUK and Folk Alliance helped develop americana music recorded in Rotherham and Sheffield This can be seen as a companion piece to the recent interview with Declan O’Rourke (here) as both he and Lauren Housley […]

Red Rooster announce their 2021 line-up

April 12, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Following a difficult start to 2021, Red Rooster have announced their line-up for this year’s festival which will take place on 27th-29th August 2021 in the grounds of Euston Hall, Suffolk. And hey it ends before […]

Interview: My Darling Clementine’s Michael Weston King on Elvis Costello

December 3, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

If anyone wanted to celebrate the UK in Americana UK, you could do a lot worse than listen to My Darling Clementine’s new album ‘Country Darkness’, their album of Elvis Costello country and country soul style […]