It was a pleasure and a privilege to bear witness to twangy singer-songwriter Haylie Davis’ solo show last night in New York City. Beyond the doors of Nightclub 101, where Davis held court, the East ...

Calida Sari is an Australian musician from Perth who writes about her lived experience as a disabled and neurodivergent singer-songwriter. Drawing from indie folk, alt-country, contemporary ...

In Leeds, West Yorkshire, while browsing old vinyl records in what Americans would call a thrift shop, there was a battered copy of The Best of Jimmie Rodgers. A fine collection of classic country, ...

The suits were sharp, the banjos were duelling, and Jake Vaadeland looked as though Porter Wagoner had personally approved his wardrobe. From the opening exchanges, Vaadeland and the Sturgeon River ...

This week, Keith talks to artists at two ends of the broad Americana church. First up, Fanny Lumsden from the Snowy Mountains in Australia talking tartan, tradition, and Paul Kelly, amongst other ...

Acclaimed Canadian songwriter brings a contemporary lens to the recent past on a finely crafted new album. Well into a career that has spanned over thirty years, Hayden returns with his tenth album, ...

There are, famously, two sides to every story, and the tale that Anthony Walker is looking at from a different point of view is one of the most deeply entrenched of American freedom stories. From ...

A beautiful folk soundtrack that embodies the surprising warmth and magic of the series it accompanies. Summing up Baker’s contribution to Small Prophets, Cook said simply that: “What she created for ...

A warm, inventive return from a gifted songwriter, rich in lyrical depth and acoustic charm. Garron Frith is an exceptionally gifted musician and songwriter from the North West of England. The Rub is ...

We have mentioned before that Folk is a broad church, and we’ve hinted that it can be at its best, or at least its most interesting, when it pushes at the boundaries. And, sometimes, that pushing ...

Six decades of experience inform lyrical début of Canadian folk-roots songwriter. A new name to our readers, Mike Guiney released his début album The Grace of Eloquence at the age of 61 in 2025. Now ...

Low-key folk with beautiful vocals and evocative, atmospheric, sensuous words. Laura Cortese grew up in San Francisco and discovered folk music through the fiddle camps she attended. She has toured ...