Schmercury nominee and For Folk’s Sake favourite Anaïs Mitchell is bringing her beloved folk Opera Hadestown to London and Glasgow this January. Both shows have been selling super fast and the Union Chapel date is currently sold out. Good news…
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Mountain Goats to release new album in April
Exciting news for fans of music that’s jolly good indeed. John Darnielle and his merry band of Mountain Goats are to release a new album – All Eternals Deck – in April this year. The band have left 4AD, the…
Johnny Flynn to star in new London play
Johnny Flynn is a man of many talents, a travelling player. Not only is he the singer songwriter of folk music that makes our hearts full and glad but he is also an actor and has previously toured with the…
Darren Hayman to release a song every day in January
The uber-talented Darren Hayman has set himself the goal of writing, recording and releasing a song a day this month. Each song is released as a free download, available for only a couple of days. You can get them from…
Christmas show on London Fields Radio
In all the Christmas album hoopla, I’d almost forgotten to tell y’all a bout our Christmas radio show. I recorded it last week in sludgey Hackney with Bitter Fingers presenter and generally nice chap Mark Higgins. We delved into the…
Need a last-minute present? Download our album artwork and make a CD!
After a last minute present for a music-lover? You can make up your own physical copy of For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas with our downloadable cover below. Just burn a CD and print the cover, then either sellotape 2 edges,…
For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas – over £1000 raised so far! Bonus EP announced
We’re delighted to report that For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas, our festive album to raise money for King’s Integrated Cancer Centre, has raised over £1000 so far. Thank you to all those who have donated. We’re selling the album through…
Bright Eyes announces new album and London show
Conor Oberst, one-time wunderkind and now purveyor of mixed-quality albums and shows is to release another Bright Eyes album and play some shows. It’s hard to know whether to be excited or not, but let’s tell ourselves it’s going to…
Slow Club work on album #2, announce 2011 tour
Rebecca and Charles of Slow Club have announced a 15-date UK tour for 2011 to coincide with a second album. Further details of the album are yet to be announced, but like their debut Yeah So it will be released…
FFS releases charity Christmas album
For Folk’s Sake is delighted to present: For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas. It’s our first ever release, and we’re selling it in aid of the Integrated Cancer Centre at King’s College London, which provides cancer care as well as being…