Simeon Hammond Dallas

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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – May 2025

May 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 3

Firstly, may I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold for picking up the baton and doing such a sterling job with last month’s EP Round-Up while I took a much-needed holiday. Now with my […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 21st January 2025

February 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

The music showcases on the Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of the AMAUK’s annual conference are a really fine way to get going on gig attending after the inevitable Yuletide lull. Taking advantage of the high density […]

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, Sunday 25th August 2024

September 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

Sunday didn’t bring quite the glorious sunshine hoped for on the final day of The Long Road 2024 but it was at least dry. First stop was Buddy’s to catch the first part of My Darling […]

More People Really Should Know About: Simeon Hammond Dallas

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

No one could ever accuse Simeon Hammond Dallas of slacking. Over the past 12 months she has been playing with anyone and everyone with a showcase spot at AmericanaFest at the National Museum of African American […]

Live Review: Wood Festival, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 19th to 21st May 2023

May 30, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0

The Wood Festival is a relatively small, family friendly affair organised by brothers Joe and Robin Bennett. It’s held in the grounds of Braziers Park, a gothic mansion nestling in the hills of South Oxfordshire, which […]

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 […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers