Traditional singer, Nick Hart, on being a folk obsessive, and coming to terms with fol-de-rol songs as a modern person.
Martin Carthy discusses a life in music: his days in skiffle, his early albums, his time with The Watersons, Dave Swarbrick, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and more.
Rachael McShane on her Topic Records album, When All is Still, plus memories of Bellowhead and a folkie upbringing
In the company of her new producer, Ben Seal, Eliza Carthy's "Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)" demands a cabaret stage.
Some call it intimacy, but in this case I’d call it honesty. It takes a very talented musician indeed to hold your attention over 14 tracks with no studio trickery to hide behind, and (let’s face it) there are fewer more talented musicians on the folk scene than Martin Simpson.
In creating Live at St George's, Jim Moray has managed to produce both a truly unique gem and a powerful historical document.
The Kings of the South Seas main man discusses the making of their latest album, 'Franklin', plus the pros and cons of doing a ship-based tour.
Scots traditional folk singer, Iona Fyfe, discusses her adventures carrying the weight of the tradition forward.
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.
"You have to know what the song means to you, otherwise why are you singing it?" Piers Cawley on bringing unaccompanied ballad singing to modern audiences.
Dilyn Afon is an aural roadtrip – a postcard – through a place, a time and its people. In our opinion, it's nothing short of a masterpiece.
From universal themes to the tiniest details, it takes it all in, and the listener who choses to spend forty minutes in its company comes out all the more enriched for it. One of 2020’s must-hear albums.