My Dark Peak EP is out today! Take a listen through to this springtime ramble over the northern moors of the peak district national park - a journey over high heather moorland and through steep isolated cloughs flanked with gritstone, reflected here by the sound of solo finger-picked guitar.

Here's the video for 'Upper Derwent' the opening track to my EP of instrumental music inspired by the Dark Peak moors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0U-...

Upper Derwent opened Friday's Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 - a huge thanks to Jennifer Lucy Allan for getting involved with my Dark Peak release and starting off her Spring Equinox themed Late Junction show with the first track! 🌱 "Luminous guitar playing...big Robbie Basho energy" 👌

The Dark Peak - Today I'm announcing my new release which is up for pre-order right now on Bandcamp! Ltd edition, hand numbered LP's & CD's are available for this landscape inspired solo guitar record - head on over and you can also take a listen to the opening track from the EP, Upper Derwent.

London tomorrow! Day 1 of the tour with Trappist Afterland and @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social on a boat in Canary Wharf! Llundain fory! Diwrnod 1af y daith gyda Trappist Afteland a Henry Parker - ni'n dechre ar gwch yng Nghei Caneri! Tix/Tocs 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 dice.fm/event/53av3y...

Still a few tickets left for this very exciting line up tomorrow evening at #theatreship (If you're Quick) With #trappistafterland @gentlegood.bsky.social and @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social Here: link.dice.fm/B5b91ad273af #psychfolk #boatgig

Here's what's happening in Feb + March!

Gigs Gigs Gigs! I've got dates in the UK and the Europe coming up in the next few weeks, including a solo tour of the Netherlands, UK gigs with @ivanmoult.bsky.social and a tour with Trappist Afterland & @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social 🤩 Details on my website thegentlegood.com/gigs

Promoting a show for Tennessee 12 string innovator Joseph Allred in Bingley on 1st Nov!! This is going to be killer, it's part of his mammoth EU / UK tour! There'll be a set from myself plus an experimental set from ADRA. All this in the upstairs room of a proper little West Yorkshire boozer.

My tour with the Dutch folk master Joost Dijkema starts tomorrow night (Saturday) in London!! See you out there?!

What a day me and David had playing at Folk East festival to celebrate the legendary Les Cousins folk club, to play alongside Bridget St John, Steve Tilston, Ian A Anderson - total joy!

See you London folk fans here? Stoked to be bring over the Dutch finger-picking maestro Joost Dijkema for his first UK tour!

Marc Brierley - Dragonfly A tune released on 7" via Transatlantic Records when Marc was 21, recorded by Nathan Joseph and with a cover photo from the legendary (and sadly recently departed) Brian Shuel. Hope you enjoy! The guitar is tuned DADGBD and I have a TAB too, find via YouTube. Cheers! ✌️

I'll be playing the songs of Trevor Beales to open up this cracking show in Todmorden on Saturday!

The shot that launches our folk/hip-hop crossover album! Myself and David Ian Roberts have a live session coming out at 6pm tonight over on Tom Sands Guitar YouTube channel - load it up and watch us play through 3 tunes from our Chasing Light LP, Road to Mallaig, Wedber Wood & Windy Pike Blues!

Myself and David Ian Roberts are thrilled to be playing this year's Folk East festival! The pair of us will be heading down to pick through our duo folk-guitar material as part of a lineup which celebrates the legendary Les Cousins folk club which ran from 49 Greek Street in Soho 1965 -1972.

Wonderful music last night @topicfolk.bsky.social with the outstanding @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social performance plus great opening set from Heslop & Stringer

Old school folk club gig klaxon for tomorrow! 🚨 Playing Topic Folk Club, Bradford!! Thurs 10th - 7:30 music

Happy to be part of this great show amongst some top pickers!

Premiere & Tour News: Before next month’s tour, watch Toby Hay and Aidan Thorne perform 'Draw', a track from their album ‘after a pause’ – music of sharply defined brilliance, brimming with consideration for the spirit of collaboration and the natural world. klofmag.com/2025/04/vide...

This Sunday, Puzzle Hall Inn - Sowerby Bridge. See you there 🫡

Bandcamp Friday fill your boots! henryparker.bandcamp.com/album/chasin...

Heard my first skylark of the year this morning, pelting out its arias from a hundred feet up or so; the song that lifts the heart as it falls.

Early days learning Hazey Jane I

'Ghedi’s combination of intensity and sublimity recalls Lankum to some extent, but there's something more earthen to Ghedi’s work – the horrific, terrifying beauty of a collapsing planet, turned into sound.' #JimGhedi - Wasteland is a Quietus Album of the Month for February 2025 buff.ly/4idbTyJ

Lovely little mention courtesy of @downbytheriver9.bsky.social in the North East institution NARC magazine

Great to play some folk guitar in the capital with David last night!!

Excited to crack out the Chasing Light album material again this Thursday in London with David Ian Roberts - sold out show too, nice! youtu.be/cYwqylNrAYk?...

8 days back to back shows with @katiespencermusic.bsky.social in The Netherlands, Germany and France complete! What a blur and what a magnificent time, a huge thanks to everyone who organised a concert for us 🙏🙏

Yesterday's episode of The Black River is now available on the WXNA archive: www.wxnafm.org/playlists/?i... Featuring tracks from @thebookofeliw.bsky.social, Maggie Björklund, George Stavis, @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social + David Ian Roberts, and brand new singles from Aux Meadows and Cameron Knowler.

A beauty of a house show in Overath on Saturday! 🙏

What a first night to the European tour with Katie Spencer in Hellevoetsluis!! Thank you Jos Van Oost for organising such a memorable show! Here we are plying either Ask Me No Questions by Bridget St John or Go Away From My Window by John Jacob Niles at the end of the night.

Sunday March 23rd 2025 ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present … Phil Tyler Solo set from Newcastle's premier primitive banjoist Henry Parker Contemporary progressive folk guitar @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF 4pm til 6pm FREE/PAYF ENTRY

Acid folk / Donovan style English whimsy from this Les Cousins floor spotter who was spurred on by Jansch and Austin John Marshall in the mid 60s. This is his first album, released 1968 on CBS, an original is very much out of reach!

Ryley Walker last night at the Trades Club, his finger picking was really on fire! Brilliant support set from Sam Grassie too 👌

We play Soho Folk & Blues club Feb 20th and head to Tregaron, Mid Wales for the Gŵyl Ffynnon Garon festival on March 1st! Very limited space for Soho so please grab a ticket in advance! Looking forward to these! events.liveit.io/folk-and-roo...

Just came across this cool publication: www.ptolemaic.org Features Jeffrey Alexander (@lidders.bsky.social) & his project The Heavy Lidders. Catch Jeffrey's next Pome Pome Tomes show on CAMP Radio Jan 27th! Plus, check out @henryparkerbfd.bsky.social's releases & tour dates: henryparkermusic.co.uk

It's a total honour to be featured in the latest Terrascopædia. It means a great deal to be featured in this "illustrated occasional" created by Phil McMullen, thank you for asking me to be a part of it!

Honoured to have contributed guitar and vocals to this beautiful LP of Australian psych-folk from Trappist Afterland the record landed with me today and it's a pleasure to listen to the finished artefact! Looking forward to the next time we play together! Out now on Greek label Cosmic Eye Records

Thanks to FATEA for naming Chasing Light their Instrumental Album of the Year for 2024! For any Londoners reading, we play Soho Folk & Blues on Feb 20th, it's looking like it'll be a great one so see you there!

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

This goes hard

The legendary outsider psych-folk musician, painter and poet Ed Askew has died, he was 84 years old. He released his first album, Ask the Unicorn, in 1968 after graduating from Yale. Read more about his music here: klofmag.com/2025/01/ed-a...

Go easy Ed Askew Discovered him by chance by picking up this 10" record when visiting Paris the Spring before last

Have made it to the Black Swan York for the first show of the year 🫡

Crap song, legendary cover art!

Hello Bluesky! Renbourn & Grossman on the stereo for the first day of 2025!

Some of my musical highlights of 2024! 🌙 Releasing and touring Chasing Light with David Ian Roberts 🌙 Releasing the Meanwood Valley Tanneries 7" at the start of the year via Reverb Worship 🌙 Playing the Davy Graham / Shirley Collins tribute show at Moth Club