Hartlepool Folk Festival 2025 : Preview
Hartlepool Folk Festival Preview – 3rd-5th October 2025; “From the sea comes folk.”
United Bible Studies – Strange Is The Coastline : Album Review
Embrace United Bible Studies in a new found burst of accessibility, easier on the ear, if still avoidant of the mainstream.
Faun – Hex: Album Review
Album #12 from Germany’s prime Pagan Folklorists, Faun. Hex is a mesmerizing collection of songs about powerful women of many cultures – witches, healers and wisdom-dispensers
Ian F Ball – Better Late Than Never: Album Review
Oldham singer-songwriter Ian F Ball celebrates 53 years as a musician with his appropriately-titled debut album. Better Late Than Never is an eclectic mix of homespun stories and tunes
Shipwreck Orchestra – Lost Maps & Long Barrows: Album Review
Perfection on a summer’s afternoon! Lost Maps & Long Barrows – the new album from Shipwreck Orchestra – aka multi-instrumentalist Aaron Miller (and friends) – blends prog and folk influences with orchestral ambition to create sounds that are truly unique and thoroughly satisfying
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2025 – Day One: Live Review
We’re underway with our coverage of Cropredy 2025 with Peatbog Faeries and Albert Lee as first night headliners.
La Nouvelle Musique – La Nouvelle Musique: Album Review
Psych-folk duo La Nouvelle Musique to release self-titled debut album via Fruits de Mer Records.
Steve Knightley – Lichfield Guildhall: Live Review
At The Barrier favourite, Steve Knightly, performs at Lichfield Guildhall. His performance is part of Lichfield Festival.
Martin Carthy – Transform Me Then Into A Fish : Album Review
Think not what he was, admire and imbibe what he is! A Martin Carthy birthday celebration.
9bach – Llaw 101 Mix: New Single
Acclaimed Welsh band 9Bach make their long awaited return to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, with a new single and a series of live performances coming up in May / June 2025.
The Young’uns 20th Anniversary Celebration Tour – Lowther Pavilion, Lytham: Live Review
In the early stages of their 20th anniversary tour (and some 40th birthdays) the Young’uns visit the Lowther Pavillion in Lytham.
Gigspanner Big Band – The Met, Bury: Live!
Gigspanner Big Band – even greater than the sum of the parts – play The Met and go live on FolkScape. We’re in the room, in the flesh.
Heilung – Manchester Apollo: Live!
We’e at Manchester Apollo for a double bill of North European rituals and rites with Eivor and Heilung.
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman: Liverpool Philharmonic: Live!
We head off to Liverpool for an evening in celebration of thirty years of music making from Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman.
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – Another Day At The Circus: Album Review
‘Live in concert’ – Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman place one foot in front of the other and walk the tightrope of live performance, making it look a breeze.