Traditional toe-tappers for toddlers? Books for your budding Bamptonite? Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe explores a world of media for folkie offspring.
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.
The Broadside Hack film combines beautifully recorded performances from a new generation of tradfolk musicians with revealing discussions on the genre's everlasting allure.
“We’ve come to dance the Dusking and we’ll dance the old sun down” - artist, Lucy Wright wants to invite you to join her in a new tradition this October! But what is ‘Dusking’?
From books to prints, from workshops to subscriptions, here's the Tradfolk list of Christmas gifts for that special folkie in your life.
On a winter walk outside Bristol, the artist, David Abbott, muses on the appearance of birds in traditional folk songs.
Alex Hurr delves into This Ain't No Disco, a visual feast that celebrates Ireland's new wave of traditional singers.
Ian A. Anderson’s Alien Water: Six Decades Paddling In Unpopular Music isn’t just a memoir – it’s a roadmap 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.
In this beautiful prose poem, Colin Williams navigates themes of migration, memory, oral tradition, and the people of the Danish Wadden Sea.
One of the most moving documentaries you'll see this year, director, Dylan Howitt, and textile artist, Allan Brown, weave together something truly profound.
The artist Lucy Wright discusses a decade exploring the lesser-known reaches of the folk world, and why folk is a feminist issue.
