A song I'd never heard before felt instantly, spookily familiar. I dug around, spoke to some friends, and got a term for the phenomena from Shirley Collins: Folk memory.
On a winter walk outside Bristol, the artist, David Abbott, muses on the appearance of birds in traditional folk songs.
There’s interesting tradition-related stuff happening in all corners of the country right now. Heck, there’s probably something going on right under your nose, without you even realising it. Here at Tradfolk we like nothing better than seeking out brilliant people doing fascinating things, so Em Kuntze has been speaking to Suzie Grieve of Foraged Fibres.
Meet Karl Sinfield, frontman with The Gally Canters, who is attempting a seemingly impossible arrangement mission with (so far) very beautiful results.
Green poet, Eleanor Flowerday, heads to the pub with folk poet, Matthew Hedley Stoppard, to discuss Morris, witchcraft, and the Garland King.
Alex Hurr delves into This Ain't No Disco, a visual feast that celebrates Ireland's new wave of traditional singers.
The artist, Ben Edge, discusses his love of folk culture and its place in this world of climate change and gentrification.
In this beautiful prose poem, Colin Williams navigates themes of migration, memory, oral tradition, and the people of the Danish Wadden Sea.
Eco poet, Eleanor Flowerday, explores the idea that folk culture may be key to the belonging that Gen Z so longs for.
Film director, Giles Borg, discusses his new project, Albion, with Jon Wilks, and detects a growing interest in all things folk culture and psychogeography.
Already making an appearance at festivals around the UK, 'The Broadside Hack' is a new film exploring traditional folk music in a modern context.
The artist Lucy Wright discusses a decade exploring the lesser-known reaches of the folk world, and why folk is a feminist issue.
