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Echo | Ben Walker

We became aware of the exceptional talents of Ben Walker the moment he applied subtle, inventive...

Amy Thatcher’s considerable credentials as an accordeon player, composer and musical adventurer...

Well now… you’d imagine Kathryn Tickell had done it all in her long, illustrious career as...

It must be great being in Leveret. You know, to be so instinctively brilliant that you don’t have...

Pop-up groups (let’s avoid saying ‘supergroups’) have been, well, popping up all over the place in...

Just when you thought the mainstream music industry had abandoned folk music for another...

English instrumental music is a happening thing with its own distinctive character and roots....

If I’ve counted correctly, the good brethren and sistren of Blowzabella – Andy Cutting, Jo Freya,...

Emotion runs high listening to this. It’s seven years or so since Norma Waterson fell into a coma...

A long, slow bow stroke… a distant plucked string… the violin slowly beginning to get more...