Guest blogger Heidi Talbot writes:
“I am sat in my flat in Edinburgh among half packed boxes and baby gear. Myself and John (McCusker) are moving house just before we start The Last Star tour. Very excited and very busy! The Last Star is my new record and I’m really looking forward to the tour and [...]
Guest blogger, Paul Sartin of Belshazzar’s Feast, writes:
“As Paul Hutchinson has suddenly and conveniently disappeared into the wilds of western France (with the Belshazzar’s Feast chequebook and my mother) it has fallen upon me to blog about our recent escapades and other such fascinating ephemera and tittle-tattle. It’s been a very busy year for us. [...]
We’ve been listening to quite a bit of the late, great Scottish entertainer Hamish Imlach in the folk office recently.
Hamish’s daughter Fiona Imlach is making his autobiography (which he co-wrote with Ewan McVicar) available again, and we asked her to share a few memories with us…
“As a child it was a novelty telling people [...]
Show Of Hands are quite possibly the hardest-working acoustic roots outfit in Britain.
Originally conceived as a duo, songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer have built a huge following over the years, releasing ten studio albums and selling out countless gigs. They’ve filled the Albert Hall three times.
They met up with Mike backstage at Cambridge [...]
The Burns Unit are an eclectic Scottish-Canadian ’supergroup’ featuring some familiar faces including Karine Polwart and Kenny ‘King Creosote‘ Anderson.
Emma Pollock, Future Pilot AKA, MC Soom T, Michael Johnston, Kim Edgar and Mattie Foulds complete the line-up.
They launched their debut album Sideshow with a couple of storming sets at this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival, and Mark [...]
Well the festival is winding down now – people are streaming out of Cherry Hinton on foot and on bicycle after four days and nights of great music, and we too are winding down. The last bits of music are being spliced into the programme ready for Wednesday’s 3-hour highlights show and the laptops and [...]
Way back in the mists of time I left Manchester behind and set off with a BBC film crew for the Appalachian Mountains of America to cycle along the Appalachian Trail. Not actually on the Trail, I have to add, but along the roads that run parallel to it, down the Blue Ridge and the [...]
Way back in the mists of time I left Manchester behind and set off with a BBC film crew for the Appalachian Mountains of America to cycle along the Appalachian Trail. Not actually on the Trail, I have to add, but along the roads that run parallel to it, down the Blue Ridge and the [...]
Some of you may already know the work of David Owen, the ‘Official Artist’ of the Cambridge Folk Festival. The image here – ‘Morrissey Dancing’ – is one of his most typical images, and expresses more than anything else his dry sense of whimsy. More still may be seen at his website. I love David’s [...]
Some of you may already know the work of David Owen, the ‘Official Artist’ of the Cambridge Folk Festival. The image here – ‘Morrissey Dancing’ – is one of his most typical images, and expresses more than anything else his dry sense of whimsy. More still may be seen at his website. I love David’s [...]
