The Blind Boys of Alabama to receive Liftetime Acheivement Award from Americana Music Association
The cermony takes place on 18 September at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
Wed, 03 July 24
Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have blown a bracing northeasterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould.
Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity, and sorrow.
Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the “inheritors, curators and gleeful distorters” (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside’s traditions. Discreetly provocative arrangements draw on elements of blues, jazz, music hall, burlesque cabaret, classical, and leftfield contemporary music, making their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave.
Fans as disparate as Robert Wyatt, Kate Rusby, Paul Morley, Nic Jones, Phil Jupitus and Joan As Policewoman have joined the chorus of adulation from the press.
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
With their lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the inheritors, curators - and gleeful distorters - of northern England's Tyneside musical tradition. Elements of blues, jazz, burlesque cabaret, classical and leftfield contemporary music make their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave.
The cermony takes place on 18 September at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
Wed, 03 July 24
Swaken features 11 tracks that spark and pulse with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy.
Fri, 10 May 24
Bab L' Bluz second album, Swaken, released in May 2024. These are the song lyrics in English, French...
Wed, 08 May 24
John Metcalfe releases three new remixes of tracks from his album 'Tree' and brings a special perfor...
Wed, 24 July 24