The new Folk London is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring • Our interview with Katie Spencer on her new album What Love Is • Remembering Rita Cherriman: Croydon Folk Club’s new gig season • News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

On the day of his death, I’m going to trot out my Danny Thompson anecdote again. In 1982 I saw the Pentangle reunion gig at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Jacqui McShee started by explaining that drummer Terry Cox had broken his leg & wouldn’t be appearing with them… 1/2

RIP Danny Thompson: bassist for Pentangle, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, June Tabor, John Martyn, Donovan … www.clashmusic.com/news/legenda...

Tower Ravens Thrales Rapper Green Man Sword Sheffield Steel Black Swan Rapper

Let me present the final post to appear at my folk/folk-rock site Salut! Live. It dies with Typepad’s closure next week but is already settling into its new Wordpress home as salutfolk.com #folkmusic #folkrock @elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social www.salutlive.com/2025/09/adie...

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring • Katie Spencer on her new album What Love Is • Remembering Rita Cherriman: Croydon Folk Club’s new gig season • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

A harvest theme to this week's Classic Folk Including: Anne Briggs & Bert Jansch @jimcausley.bsky.social @katerusby.bsky.social Frankie Armstrong - playing @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social tomorrow! @stevetilston.bsky.social @damienandron.bsky.social and many more www.efdss.org/listen

Interesting and informative piece by @jonwilksmusic.bsky.social on why, and also, how, he took his music off Spotify www.jonwilks.online/blog/life-af...

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring • Katie Spencer on her new album What Love Is • Remembering Rita Cherriman: Croydon Folk Club’s new gig season • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

Morris Dancing classes start next week Tuesday evenings, 6.30pm - 8pm Have fun with sticks and hankies! A fun and relaxed way to discover one of England’s most iconic dances Book for just a single session, or save £25 by booking in advance for the whole term. bit.ly/3HKPNX1

In partnership with our friends at @soundrootsuk.bsky.social, we're pleased to announce the jury members for the Folk Album of the Year Award 2025! Find out more about the jury: www.soundroots.uk/news/new-fol... Submit your album: www.soundroots.uk/folk-album-o...

Ruin a song by not singing it (credit: Martin Carthy)

New piece: Life After Spotify: What Musicians Lose — and What They Gain. A field report for any musicians wrestling with leaving Spotify — the playlist trap, the illusion of “discovery,” and what you really gain by stepping away. www.jonwilks.online/blog/life-af...

Absolutely delighted to be able to announce that Jackie Oates and myself will be back out on the road this December touring around England and Wales with our festive show featuring songs and music from our album "A Midwinter's Night" Full details and ticket links from johnspiers.co.uk/shows

Applications for grants of £500 for folk artists to support anything that will help their professional career development. Apply before midnight on 19 October. bit.ly/4nm60RD Image shows previous awardee Suntou Susso

Huge congratulations to Martin Carthy for being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize! @comesingitplain.bsky.social @klofmag.com klofmag.com/2025/09/mart...

Big news! In September, we’ll be at the Traditional Music Day in Stowmarket, doing our first live episode! It’ll be recorded it all and will be on our Patreon a few weeks later and then in place as S17/E4. We’re thrilled to doing a live in person episode and there are plans for more next year.

Congrats to me ol' mucker Martin Carthy on his nomination for the frickin MERCURY PRIZE!!!! #dontcallhimalegend

Absolutely DELIGHTED to tell you that #thedaddy has been nominated for this year’s MERCURY PRIZE!!!!!! About time, Dad! You total BELTER! 🐟🐟🐟👑👑👑🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🌟🌟🌟 Congratulations team: Ben Seal, Liz, Chris Salt, Kairen Kemp, Jon Wilks, Tim Youster and Dan Macdonald! #transformmethenintoafish

Don't forget that you can sign up for a FREE TRIAL session before deciding whether you'd like to join Fire Choir 🔥 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cecil Sharp House Choir has become known for its spirited and moving renditions of traditional songs. Join us on Wednesday evenings at Cecil Sharp House, there’s no need to read music – all songs are taught by ear. Book your place for this term: bit.ly/4mOmyBM

i love the story that Stan Rogers wrote Barrett's Privateers after going to a shanty session where everyone knew all the songs but him, so he went home and wrote his own sea shanty to have a song that *he knew* and could teach the others

The Sound Lounge have been measured, constructive and inclusive in the way they have responded to recent events and this is their reward for that approach. Smashed windows, a closed business, frightened staff.

Further to my various posts about the local #Sutton flagshagger, the Sound Lounge, who the people from the newspaper article who asked him to stop, and who asked to enter into a (very rational) dialogue on the matter, have had their window smashed. Donations: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/repairing-...

Save the date! Saturday 4 October is a Black British Folk Renaissance and you are invited. I’ve nurtured this idea for a few years now, so I’m thrilled that @efdss.bsky.social will be hosting it at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social See you there! 🖤 www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: Tom Clancy's Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡 Free Palestine! Free the 6 counties!

Morris Folk Club for August is on this Tuesday, 26th, (post bank-hol!). 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Free entry. What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club..... What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli.... Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!

Hellooo! Thanks for a lovely gig in Whitby! Seems like I’m just posting about lost things at the moment-but if anyone found a bracelet made of tiny sliver elephants in/around either the Met or the Spa, please may I have it back? It was a birthday present from Dad last year. 🐘🐘🐘🐟🐟🐟 Please share! 🙏🏼 ❤️‍🔥

New music from Sean with @elizacarthy.bsky.social Sam Carter & Jennifer Reid hudsonrecords.ffm.to/petersfield

🎶 “Community service? I do it with ease Suspended sentence? Oh Your Honour, yes please Before you know it, I’ll be down the deep freeze Nicking cod from the freezers in Iceland” 🎶 (RIP Garry)

Hello beautiful Bluesky. I’ve launched pre-orders for two classic Chris T-T albums: LONDON IS SINKING (2003) and 9 RED SONGS (2005) limited edition 12” LPs, both on vinyl for the first time ever. Order yours today… www.indietees.co.uk/chris-tt and please share. Thankyou!

Are you involved in folk or roots music in the UK or Ireland? If so this new site created by duo @miltonhide.bsky.social and @jimbotip.bsky.social is for you. It is in its early stages and we need names on there! Come and join us. www.therootslist.co.uk

Our friends at @soundrootsuk.bsky.social have opened for submissions to the Folk Album of the Year Award! If you have recorded a folk album this year, submit it before 31 October www.soundroots.uk/folk-album-o...

We’ve been selling out the Green Note and the Harrison - the lovely acoustic venues in London. Want to do some more similar shows. Anyone know what the other venues on that circuit are now in town? It’s been so long. So: 50-100ish capacity. With a regular clientele. Looking to make some bookings.

And we’re off! Sidmouth Folk Festival 2025 is a go!

This is horrible news: Garry Walker of the HogEye Men has died of cancer. He was a lovely man, a wonderful singer and wrote some tremendous songs too, particularly Fifty Years a Sailor. Go well, Garry

Bluesky. Am looking for recommendations for folk/traditional albums coming out in the next month. Not singer-songwriter records, but music that uses traditional folk songs or traditional instruments to make something interesting/intriguing/magical, from anywhere in the world. Thank you!

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...

I’ve taken the initial steps to remove my music from Spotify. Thanks to Distrokid, the digital distributor I use, for acting so quickly – it’ll be gone within the next day or so.

This is something well worth donating a few quid to and it’s very close to reaching its target. As a bonus, if Dick wins it potentially opens a door for all the other older folk artists whose recordings are stuck in the Celtic Music vaults. gofund.me/2b1f2424

Morris Folk Club for July is on this coming Tuesday, 29th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Free entry. What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club..... What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... (and in photo). Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!

The new Folk London magazine is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring: 🎼 Local heroes the Kimberleys on playing Sidmouth this year 🎼 An obit of the great Wizz Jones 🎼 News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...

Here is the (very) short Q&A with me that appears in the official Tall Ships Aberdeen programme. I spoke about historical shanty singing and multilingual traditions. Proud to be credited as a maritime musicologist! #seashanties #maritimehistory #TallShips

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and will go out to readers next week. Featuring: 🎼 Local heroes the Kimberleys on playing Sidmouth this year 🎼 An obit of the great Wizz Jones 🎼 News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...

What a great day of dance at Exmouth yesterday, part of the #MorrisFed50 50th anniversary celebrations. Were you there? Was your side there? Recognise any of the sides? m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHAF...

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes,you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action,seen by two people only There's no public apology. They don't send this to media or post it on police accounts We will continue to fight. We will continue to win.

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and will go out to readers next week. Featuring: 🎼 Local heroes the Kimberleys on playing Sidmouth this year 🎼 An obit of the great Wizz Jones 🎼 News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...