Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker sing beautifully drawn miniatures full of a melancholy reminiscent of early-70's folk singers like Sandy Denny, June Tabor and Shirley Collins. But when the the duo…
NOTES FROM AN ISLAND (Gilded Lily Records/Planet) ★★★★☆ Blair Dunlop doesn't advertise it but his father, Ashley Hutchings, was one of the most influential musicians in the English folk boom…
Ahead of Blair Dunlop's second visit to Australia, he took the time to chat with Chris Familton about his new album's blend of English folk and American country music and the role that…
By the time you read this the new album by Blair Dunlop, Notes From An Island, will have been completed – he was midway through recording it when we spoke
The 500-odd metre ramble from the Irish Whiskey Museum to St Stephen’s Green feels undistinguished under a granitic Dublin sky. Impatient locals weighed down by winter coats zigzag amid tourists…
The story has been told many times of how Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, the Mexican guitar duo were unearthed over a decade ago while busking on the streets of…
LAST time she was here she was support for Glen Hansard and the Frames following on from her departure from Damien Rice’s band, but for this visit as part of…
Vivid Live Lisa Hannigan Drama Theatre, Opera House, May 30 ★★★★ There is folk music at the root of everything that Lisa Hannigan does, but folk music is not really…
John Smith, an English folk guitarist and singer from Devon, was the support act for Lisa Hannigan . His name suggests a degree of anonymity, and he was quick to…
Lisa Hannigan is some kind of wonderful. She’s enjoyed an incredible musical journey – three studio albums down, collaborations with the likes of Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, Herbie Hancock –…