Now we at For Folk’s Sake love Christmas as much as anyone. Every year we count the days to dust off A Charlie Brown Christmas and pull on the cosiest woolly jumper we can find. But few can deny the…
Premiere | Dom Major – Christmas Cards
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Album | Me and My Friends – Look Up
Combining Ghanaian highlife, Jamaican roots and Afro Brazilian folk music, Me and My Friends’ musically heady hybrid creates an instantly recognisable sound defying easy categorisation. The West African finger-picking of Nick Rasie, along with stunning harmonies, highly evocative cello and…
Premiere | Kristin Chambers – Merry Through the Year
As bold a claim as it may be, Kristin Chambers’ newest single feels a whole lot like a new holiday chestnut. Wrapped in a healing, nostalgic warmth and heart, the gentle sway of ‘Merry Through the Year’ recants the love…
Premiere | Café Spice – Lauren
Café Spice have been charming their home city of Manchester for a while now, building up a fine reputation with live performances of their beautiful harmonies and sweet tunes. And now the trio – made up of Georgia Gage, Eleanor…
Video premiere | Stanlaey – The Mountain Collector
“We thrive when we are in harmony with our natural environment,” says Bethany Stenning, aka Stanlaey. “‘The Mountain Collector’ explores overcoming negative emotions through union with nature.” ‘The Mountain Collector’ is the second single from Stanlaey’s upcoming album The Human…
Video Premiere | HuDost – Rise Together (with Jars of Clay)
Unity tends to be the name of the game once the hells are decked with boughs of holly, but that call for togetherness never truly runs stale. There is always a need for friendship and doing a kindness for one’s…
Album Premiere | Alex Dunn – Scattered Poems
With his debut album, Scattered Poems, Alex Dunn proudly walks in the footsteps of singer-songwriters who have laid Seattle’s unwittingly roots-laden musical foundation. A gateway of the Gold Rush, Washington has a hefty catalog of warm folk songwriting enveloped in the…
Video premiere | Malojian – Beard Song
Getting your album on the shortlist for the Northern Irish Music Prize is a big deal. So big that if you’re Malojian (aka Stephen Scullion), you might suddenly find a massive mural of yourself painted on the side of the…
Video Premiere | Joe Goodkin – What Remains is Love
In the end, love is the answer. This philosophy may well be as timeless as love itself as an end-all answer to what has, is happening, and has happened. It’s no wonder that the meditative ponderance is at the center…
Premiere | Jane Frank – Practical Jackets
On her newest single, Jane Frank lays it out, well, frankly. The San Francisco indie artist revels in musical influences ranging in eras as far back as 1950s rock’n’roll to more contemporary alternative facets. That much is evident from the…