Karine Polwart is a multi-award-winning songwriter and musician, a theatre maker, storyteller, spoken-word performer, essayist, and published writer. Five-times winner at The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including twice for Best Original Song, her fifth solo album ‘Traces’ was shortlisted for both the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award & BBC Radio 2 Folk […]
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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and US folk icon, Tom Paxton, returns to the UK in April 2018 to perform twelve shows with very special guests, Grammy winning singer/songwriter duo The DonJuans – Don Henry & Jon Vezner. Collectively, their songs have been covered by: Harry Belafonte, John Mellencamp, Miranda Lambert, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles,
The Country Music Association has revealed the initial artist lineup for this year’s CMA Fest. Now in its 47th year, CMA Fest boasts an exceptional bill of hundreds of artists performing on 11 stages throughout downtown Nashville Thursday through Sunday, June 7-10. Billboard named CMA Fest its No. 1 Country Music festival in the U.S.
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Late last week, Dierks Bentley was presented with an award from Nashville’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt – the first star on its brand new Walk of Champions. Addressing the crowd, Bentley said, “I am personally so honoured to have this star…I feel like everyone that knows the situation knows I’m not the star. It’s really
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Multi-platinum selling artist Kane Brown holds steady at the top of the charts for a 9th week as his self-titled debut album remains #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Since his debut album released on Dec. 2, 2016, Brown’s album has held the #1 slot for more weeks than any other album and
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A group that has thrilled the crowds at Glastonbury and taken the Edinburgh Fringe by storm has signed up to headline Beverley Folk Festival. Following their sell out performances of ‘The Lock In’ The Demon Barbers return with new repertoire, extra band members and a modern twist to their multi-award winning Roadshow. Featuring some of the UK’s most exciting young Clog, Sword, Hip Hop & Break dancers
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One of the most celebrated forces to breakthrough in country music, Lindsay Ell, took time out of her packed US touring schedule just over a week ago to come to London for the genre’s biggest weekend in the UK – Country to Country (C2C) Festival – and by all accounts has emerged as one of
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The Country Music Association presented International Awards this past week during C2C: Country to Country festival in London as well as CMC Rocks QLD festival in Australia. Award recipients included Canadian singer/songwriter Dean Brody, BBC Radio 2’s Mark Hagen, six-time reigning CMA Awards Vocal Group of the Year Little Big Town, Spotify’s John Marks, AEG
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The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville will host a tribute concert on March 27 in honor of Daryle Singletary, who died on Feb. 12 at his home unexpectedly, in Lebanon, Tennessee. A string of Top 10 hits came from Singletary in the mid-1990s with “I Let Her Lie,” “Too Much Fun” and “Amen Kind of Love.
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Chris Stapleton has achieved his first No. 1 single, after scoring multiple Grammy Awards, CMA Awards, ACM Awards and No. 1 albums over the past three years. This week, ‘Broken Halos’ made its way to the top spot on the Mediabase chart. Penned with Mike Henderson, it is the second single from Chris’ 2017 album,
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