In need of stocking fillers that'll brighten the days of your fave folk musicians? Here's what we recommend for Christmas Bandcamp Friday.
Jon Wilks offers up vignettes from the best folk gigs he's seen this year as we ask you what your favourites were in 2023.
'Weird folk' seems to exist at the crossroads between traditional folk music, experimentalism, and psychogeography. James Hadfield explores.
Introducing the first ever Tradfolk Takeover at the FolkEast Festival, featuring some of the up-and-coming stars of traditional English folk music.
Forget the title. Whatever these two turn their hands to turns to gold. An exceptional album from two musicians at the absolute top of their game
'Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs' has all the hallmarks of being stripped-down tradfolk classic in waiting.
Ahead of the release of "Nick Hart Sings 10 English Folk Songs", fans of the traditional folk singer smother him with questions.
Nick Hart's debut album, Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs, has all the hallmarks of a cult classic in waiting.
Rachel Wilkinson reviews 'Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs' and finds a musical jack-of-all-trades, master of so much.
From Paul Simon to Billy Bragg to Stewart Lee; from Peggy Seeger to Eliza Carthy to Anaïs Mitchell, some of Martin Carthy's biggest fans line up the questions...
The deliberations have been made and the tally totted up. Here, then, is this year's BIG list.
Traditional singer, Nick Hart, on being a folk obsessive, and coming to terms with fol-de-rol songs as a modern person.