Stephanie Coleman

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking. There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another. No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]

Live Review: Nora Brown And Stephanie Coleman + Spitzer Space Telescope, The Round Chapel, London – 21st November 2025

December 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Walking through the icy rain in Hackney towards The Round Chapel, one comforting thought was that this was going to be the best of times – Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman are top-notch Old Time players […]

Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

March 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Cambridge Folk Festival has announced its second tranche of acts for the 2024 event, including several names to whet the appetite of fans of Americana. Following their shows with the 2024 Transatlantic Sessions, banjo/ fiddle […]

Live Review: Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, The Green Note, London – 30th June 2023

July 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Green Note was presenting a hotly anticipated appearance by the duo of Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, who have been playing together, on occasions, for at least five years. Stephanie is a talented fiddle player […]

Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman “Lady Of The Lake” – you fill in the Monty Python reference

July 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Something truly special for this Wednesday afternoon AUKIBS (that’s the Americana UK Instrumental Bonanza Slot in case you were wondering). The duo of Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman have an EP, of which this is the […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Elles Bailey “Shining In The Half Light”

February 17, 2022 0

New producer and rural Devon work wonders on Bailey’s latest Album number three for Bristol based singer Elles Bailey solidifies her position as one of the most powerful and talented female blues artists around with this […]

Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: Ferris & Sylvester

May 11, 2017 0

Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester make up a Folk/Americana duo called Ferris & Sylvester. They have just released the first single “Save Yourself” as part of their debut EP “The Yellow Line”, produced by Youth at his Space Mountain […]

Album Reviews

Jess Kerber “From Way Down Here”

June 11, 2025 0

A reflective album looking back on discovery, where everything felt new and beautiful. “From Way Down Here” is Louisiana-born, Nashville-based Jess Kerber’s debut album. It is a very engaging and charming set of songs that is, […]

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

Live Review: Nora Brown And Stephanie Coleman + Spitzer Space Telescope, The Round Chapel, London – 21st November 2025

Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

Live Review: Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, The Green Note, London – 30th June 2023

Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman “Lady Of The Lake” – you fill in the Monty Python reference

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”