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Iggy Pop 2016-12-16 Iggy Confidential

2878 days ago
Core News“Iggy serves you up a sonic cocktail to start the weekend off including tracks by Tijuana Panthers, Kate Tempest, Jim Moray, Michael Kiwanuka and Goat. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spirit since th... more info

Homegrown brings wealth of talent to Bury's The Met

4398 days ago
Guardian MusicAnother great folk festival joins the rich range already thriving in the north west. Helen Nugent prelimsIn a world where teen heartthrobs, rap artists and reality show winners dominate the charts, it is heartening to learn that more than 300 folk fe... more info

Nic Jones and friends – review

4423 days ago
Guardian MusicCecil Sharp House, LondonNic Jones, a giant of 1970s folk, has become an almost mythical figure to a new generation of musicians who draw inspiration from his work, notably his seminal 1980 album Penguin Eggs. Jones's career was wrecked by a serious ... more info

Cambridge folk festival

4478 days ago
Guardian MusicCherry Hinton Hall, CambridgeTo Cambridge, for its restorative annual showcase of ancient songs about death and despair. This year's lineup is a curious one, lacking some of the scene's up-and-coming stars, such as Jackie Oates, Sam Lee and Jim Moray... more info

Jim Moray: Skulk – review

4594 days ago
Guardian Music(NIAG)Nine years ago, Jim Moray startled the folk scene by treating the well-worn Early One Morning to a barrage of electric guitar and programming. Since then he has moved towards a more traditional acoustic approach, while developing his skills as ... more info

Jim Moray - Skulk (album stream)

4681 days ago
Totally Fuzzy Widely regarded as one of the most inventive artists working in traditional folk music today, after four ground-breaking and award-winning albums Jim Moray finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK and hailed as a pivotal influ... more info

Jackie Oates: the new face of folk

4685 days ago
Guardian MusicJackie Oates may be the new face of folk, but her sound is rooted in her past, writes Jude RogersOn the wall of an Oxford front room, above a harmonium and a fiddle, you'll find a popart print of Jackie O. At first, you think you're looking at John F... more info

Cecil Sharp Project – review

4967 days ago
Guardian MusicCecil Sharp House, LondonThis was a tough brief. Eight folk musicians spent a week in the countryside writing a concept work about the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp. He may have played a crucial role in the revival of the genre in the early 20th ce... more info

Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain?

4972 days ago
Guardian MusicTo some, Cecil Sharp is a folk hero, to others, an arch-manipulator. So, given a week to write a song suite about him, what would today's folk stars come up with?It sounds like some hideous TV reality show dreamed up by Simon Cowell and Andrew Lloyd ... more info

Belshazzar's Feast: Find the Lady – review

5091 days ago
Guardian Music(Unearthed/One Little Indian)Paul Sartin is best-known for his fiddle and oboe work with that triumphant folk big band Bellowhead, but he has spent much of the past 15 years working around the British folk clubs with accordion-player Paul Hutchinson ... more info

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