Since being named Best Newcomer at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Sam Carter has been stirring audiences from Camden to Canada, via an attention grabbing appearance on Later… with Jools Hollandand a performance in a specially assembled band to back Richard Thompson at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Since the release of his last solo […]
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Asheville, North Carolina folk-Americana trio Underhill Rose have announced their debut UK & Ireland tour for April & May in support of their new album THE GREAT TOMORROW. With Eleanor playing her distinctive claw-hammer style on a Deering banjo along with harmonica, Molly Rose on guitar, and Salley plucking the upright bass, the trio has carved out
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Founder of The Johnny Cash Museum, Bill Miller, with his wife Shannon, have revealed preliminary details to open a museum honouring the late, great Patsy Cline. The venture will be entirely funded and operated by the Miller family organisation and construction is scheduled to begin in June. “Of all the artists in the history of
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Anglo / Austrian alt-country duo Two Ways Home have announced a UK tour this May. The tour will be supported with the release of the beautiful new video for the track Still In Love, taken from their recently released EP, BETTER DAYS. Produced by MsM (Ed Sheeran, The Saturdays), Still In Love continues Two
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Merle Haggard died of pneumonia on April 6, the date was also his 79th birthday. Haggard recorded more than 30 number one country hits in a musical career that spanned six decades, from the 1960s into the 2010s. The Hag was one of country music’s most influential writers and voices, he was also one of the artists that defined the Bakersfield country sound.
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The Under The Apple Tree Festival has announced that both Mary Chapin Carpenter and Gretchen Peters will headline Whispering Bob Harris’ inaugural festival. The festival will take place at Silverstone’s Woodlands Campsite on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend May 27-29, 2016. Grammy Award winning artist Mary Chapin Carpenter has chosen Bob ‘s new festival to celebrate
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Luke & Mel formed in 2012, having met through performing in the UK’s top touring theatre show, Country Legends. Luke’s experience as a session guitarist has seen him play on top theatre stages in the UK with shows like ‘One Night of Elvis’, ‘Dolly The Show’. ‘Country Legends’ and PJ.Proby’s 2010 UK Tour. He has also performed on
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Folk band, Sheelanagig, will soon release their fifth album, BEARD TOWN. The album was recording at the the legendary Real World Studios; the band will celebrate its release with an album launch at The Islington, London on Thursday April 28. Sheelanagig have become a West Country institution for the past decade. The quintet come armed with
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Following up from the release of their single Little Harder and two performances at C2C in London, UK country-pop duo Holloway Road have announced the release of their second EP, ROOTS. The collection will see Holloway Road going back through previous genres they’ve written and played over the years – their aim was to fuse
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The Diablos are proving to be one of the more enduring country acts on the British market, this year seeing their tenth anniversary. In these ten years they have produced four albums, including latest release ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION. The Diablos have become known for a rockin’ country style but they brought a more reflective side
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