Seth Lakeman

Interview: Seth Lakeman on “The Granite Way”

February 4, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

Keeping the past alive to help the future by reframing of old stories for today. It may be twenty years since Seth Lakeman was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for his second album, “Kitty Jay”, […]

New Seth Lakeman album and new year tour on its way

November 21, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

He’s not fiddling whilst Rome burns… AUK favourite and Mercury nominated musician Seth Lakeman is set to release his self-produced new album “The Granite Way” on his own Honour Oak Records on 14th February 2025, with […]

Folk Tracks Roundup, August 2024

August 30, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]

Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer

June 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

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 […]

2023’s Americana festivals – where we are spending our summer?

May 26, 2023 Emily Dongray 2

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 […]

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

August 6, 2026 0

Here’s the sound of the summer; Marianne is upbeat folk from singer-songwriter Karl Bray. Featuring guitar from Paul Phillips, former member of Pooh Sticks, Marianne opens with a light strum before the song settles into its swaying […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]