As the biggest music competition in the world hits Liverpool this week, we thought we’d take a typically niche Tradfolk look at folk-inspired entries through the years.
US folk trio, Kalos, introduce their new video - a recording of a 300-year-old traditional Scottish tune celebrating the landscape.
New contemporary folk label/collective Broadside Hacks tackle another traditional classic, hinting at things to come perhaps? Alex Hurr investigates.
As Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne preps a new EP, we pick his brains on the title track: 'Come Make My Bed' [Roud 32444].
Crossing Welsh tradfolk with Ethiopean tizita, Cynefin's Owen Shiers explains the background to his new video, Lliw'r Ceiroes.
A cohort of Martin Simpson fans pick the songs they think you ought to hear.
In the first of a series exploring the singers of traditional songs, John Roy takes a look at the singing of Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (Joe Heaney).
Angeline Morrison releases a brand new video along with huge news about her forthcoming appearance on Later with Jools Holland.
Julian Gaskell digs into a broadside ballad about burial clubs, and tells us where he went with it and what attracted him in the first place.
Leeds-based duo, Wychbury, talk us through their new single, 'Cut the Coal', and explain how it was inspired by the tradition.
'Daring Highwayman', the new single from Hack Poets Guild, is nothing short of a glam romp. We take a listen to the song and investigate its history.
Released as a charity single, 'Early Pearly' is a traditional song from Ripon, Yorkshire. Bryony Griffith gives us the lowdown.
