Tracks
Folk Tracks Roundup, August 2024
Well, what a busy August it has been. Gigs. Holidays. That sort of thing. But never fear, we’d never let you down without a set of Folk Tracks for the month. And it shortens the waiting […]
Seth Lakeman
News
Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer
It has been confirmed that the Gate To Southwell Festival (GTSF) 2024 will be the only chance to catch Rhiannon Giddens performing in the UK this summer. The multi-Grammy award-winning folk, foots and americana star will […]
Features
2023’s Americana festivals – where we are spending our summer?
In the blinking dawn of the new year, many of the festivals announced their line-ups. They dropped exciting news about headliners, and some early-bird tickets went on sale, but in the wave of resolutions and starting […]
News
Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide
It’s that time again when the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]
Album Reviews
Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter “Sea Song Sessions”
Superb collection of maritime songs and sea shanties performed by the cream of Britain’s folk musicians. Britain is a maritime nation. The sea has long defined British identity, in terms of both how Britons view themselves […]