There’s nothing Richard Hawley can’t do. Because if you can perform ‘Silent Night’ this brilliantly inside the Devil’s Arse*, you can do anything. *Note: This is, in fact, a cave just south of Hawley’s home town of the Sheffield, and…
Laura Marling so beautifully articulates the crispness of Britain’s cold weather in this, her most wintry of songs. This song was released in 2009, but La Marling started playing it the Christmas before. Including at the Communion Christmas Party, a…
Bradford folkies The Halstead Clan have produced this rather lovely Christmas song to raise money for a local boy, Cannor Lancaster. Connor was left physically affected by a bout of meningitis at just two weeks old, and has since been…
Way back in 2002, Conor Oberst released A Christmas Album as Bright Eyes. What was then an online-only release brought together Oberst’s take on 11 standards but it was never designed to soundtrack a Christmas party. The New York Times…
More 4 are hosting a folk night this Saturday 7th December with three programmes all about how excellent folk is. Clue: it’s REALLY excellent. Get Folked: The Great Folk Revival A documentary about ALL THE FOLK with interviews and performances…
Here’s a rather lovely performance by FFS favourites Stornoway of their song ‘Waiting on the Clock’. It was recorded at a Sofar Sounds show in London. Sofar Sounds put on secret gigs around the world, usually hosted in people’s homes. Stornoway…