If there was any justice in the music industry, Conrad Lambert – AKA Merz – would be weighing in at the top of every Best of 2013 list. That’s not to diminish his very real achievements over the years, which…
With such a sophisticated and varied back catalogue, Patty Griffin sounds like she’s been writing and performing her whole life. In fact, she only begun her career as an artist in the early nineties, recording her heartfelt, country-tinged debut, Living…
The stage at Hoxton Bar and Grill is tantalisingly populated with a flat screen, projector and mammoth percussion rig long before Cameron Mesirow, aka Glasser, takes to the stage twenty-five minutes late. Apparently oblivious to such earthly mundanities as ‘time’,…
Nicki Bluhm is no stranger to touring life, having completed an epic, 200-date, US tour as part of Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers in 2013. This October saw the San Francisco 6-piece shrunk to three for their first ever European…
Hello. I’m the Interview Editor here at For Folk’s Sake. I look a bit like this. I’ve teamed up with the artist Al Lewis and awesome FFS writer Puja Maniar to put on a folk night in Tooting Market, South…
Over the last ten years, Ane Brun’s career has taken the ‘slow burn’ route, with seven studio albums released independently on her own label, Balloon Ranger Recordings. This patience has paid off, resulting in a solid fan base of devoted…
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hi, my name is Roo, and I guess my music is as good an introduction to me as I could hope to write. I would imagine my music would be described…
Canadian-born Lindi Ortega knows what it’s like to be a struggling musician. After ten years cutting her teeth as an indie artist on the Toronto music scene, she now has three successful albums on Last Gang Records under her belt…
Rarely has there been so much industry interest in the solo project of a former hang player – even one that belonged to such a group as the Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet. But since embarking on his solo career, Nick Mulvey’s…
We love a bit of quirky folk here at FFS, and Lisa Knapp is at the vanguard of those fusing traditional sounds, structures and songs with new technologies. On new record, Hidden Seam, this combines to deliver something fresh yet…