This week we have Thom Ashworth in session playing a song from his recently released debut album Head Canon, which has been picking up praise across the folkasphere. The album is a mix of traditional folk songs (and one modern…
Horace Holloway is a classic folk troubadour in contemporary wrapping. The moniker of Jeffery Morrison, the music that he makes under the moniker is as frank and personable as the real deal. Throughout his latest, he invokes a raw liveliness…
With the release of ‘Desire Lines’, Elsa Birgitta Bekman has two singles to her name. The first, ‘Once in My Life (Sverige Vals)’, debuted to much aplomb in early July beside a stirring self-produced cinematic. She’s approaching the release of…
Over the years, Twitch has become much more than just the hottest commodity for video game streaming on the web. Resurrection Fern would attest to that. Over the past three years that she’s been a part of the Twitch streaming…
Anticipation is building here at FFS towers because one of our favourite artists Rachael Dadd has a new album on the way. FLUX is due in a couple of months and, treat of treats, we can now bring you the…
Joan Shelley tends to do things a little differently. Like The River Loves The Sea was recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland; a world away from her home near Louisville, Kentucky. Despite being thousands of miles from the world she knows, being…
Cross-pollination creates new hybrids. In the case of I See Hawks In L.A., meeting up with Liverpool’s The Good Intentions at a house party in the Sierra Madre foothills was an auspicious beginning. Charming English accents captivated the Hawks as…
We’re really pleased to be able to bring you the first play of Pavey Ark’s new video, for their lush and layered single ‘Wallflowers’. The band played a session for us back in 2017 and since then they’ve kept themselves…
Back in 2016 it was Zoe Konez who kicked off our current run of sessions, so we thought it was high time she came back. Zoe came into the studio, again accompanied by Will, to play her recent single ‘We…
In the ongoing pursuit of his musical career, Josh Rennie-Hynes moved from his native Australia to Nashville last year. In doing so, he left behind not only his home country, but the place where he’d already dropped two critically-acclaimed solo…
Angela Perley is a night owl, “4:30 is when my body’s natural sleep cycle begins … My creative time begins as soon as the sun goes down. I don’t know what it is… but there’s something special about it. It’s dark…
“I like you, I like you,” intones Justin Vernon on ‘iMI’, the opening salvo of his group’s fourth album. In the three years since the shadowy 22, A Million, Bon Iver’s convener has achieved a hard-earned contentment – even if…
Largely known as the lead singer of Norway’s Lucky Lips, Malin Pettersen is leaning further into the folk side of her country-folk with her second solo effort, the upcoming 6-track album, Alonesome. As we can assess from the release of…
Lauren Malasig and Steve McKenzie are CommonUnion59. Hailing from San Francisco, the pianist and guitarist mesh their vocals to develop straight-shooting folk music. Redolent of the American folk movements of the 60s and 70s, their lyrical focus waxes philosophy on…
“It’s about the feeling of desperation. About missing, wanting, needing, one you cannot be with, for whatever reason,” says Taylor Rogers regarding her new single, ‘oldhills’. Hailing from her forthcoming album, NOA, ‘oldhills’ is a co-write with her twin brother,…
Emma Frank will return with her second album on next month. Expanding on her distinctive mix of folk, R&B and jazz, Come Back is the follow-up to 2018’s Ocean Av. As a teaser before it’s release, here we bring you…
‘Good to see you again, folks!’ read the screens next to stage one on Thursday, the opening evening of 2019’s Cambridge Folk Festival; a not unfounded assumption that audiences return year after year. Thursday night has traditionally been a soft…
