The narrative of Ron Sexsmith’s career can be summed up thus… ‘critically acclaimed, commercially unsuccessful’… that is until this year’s album release LONG PLAYER LATE BLOOMER and the accompanying film documentary LOVE SHINES. For long time fans watching the […]
You know the sense you get when meeting up with an old friend, whom you haven’t seen for years, but it seems like you only last spoke yesterday – well that’s what it felt like seeing the Jayhawks playing tonight […]
Ellis Paul returned to the place where five years ago he made his UK debut to find that the show had been moved ‘upstairs’ i.e. to a larger venue (on the strength of advance ticket sales) that it was packed […]
As the crowds wend their way home on Sunday afternoon from the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, some head for Norman, Oklahoma for Don Conoscenti’s annual ‘post WoodyFest’ show at the Chouse. It has become a much-loved tradition and this year’s […]
The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival staged in Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah, a community of 3000 that swells to more than double that over the course of the festival, continues its tradition of being free apart from the opening night fund […]
The MAN OF MANY MOONS returned to Brighton having last played in the city, with his partner, Carrie Elkin, on Thanksgiving Day 2009, for promoters Gilded Palace of Sin in what was their final show. Fond memories of a bittersweet […]
American folk-singer Chuck Brodsky, so very well received at last year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival, opened the first night of his first full UK tour at Twickenham Folk Club, an ideal setting for a man whose literate style just demands the […]
Anaïs Mitchell has been a regular visitor to the UK since 2005 when she was invited over by promoters Acoustic Sussex to play a few dates in support of her 2004 release HYMNS FOR THE EXILED. Since that debut, six […]
A handful of dates in the UK behind this year’s release of HARD BARGAIN culminated in a sold-out show in London by Emmylou Harris and her five-piece band, The Red Dirt Boys. The ‘Boys’ Rickie Simpkins (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Phil […]
