What is it about Nona Marie Invie’s voice that makes it so startlingly beautfiul? Its lack of pretension? Its unwavering tone? Or its quiet strength? Whatever it is, it’s showcased to perfection on new song ‘What I Needed’ – a…
The Staves headed the final wave of acts to be added to the Cambridge Folk Festival as the complete line-up was revealed today. The trio will play Main Stage 1 on the Sunday of the event which runs from July…
It would be over the top to suggest that, at the age of 22, it was make-or-break time for Alessi Laurent-Marke. But there is no denying that Alessi’s Ark needed a third album of substance, something to erase words like…
According to Haiku Salut themselves, the sound they make is “Baroque-Pop-Folktornic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other”. Whatever that is, they can safely claim to be Derbyshire’s premier exponents of it – a fact demonstrated on Tricolore, which helpfully comes with a series of wonderful drawings…
However you go about getting there, it’s a long way from London to Portland, Oregon. But it’s even further if you go via busking stints in France and what we’re told was a time spent yodelling in the Swiss Alps.…
File Terry Emm on the list of the criminally underrated. The Bedfordshire songwriter has put out two fine, fine albums of a gentle folk music which has strong echoes of the English greats, and despite a wealth of critical acclaim,…