Featured Artist of the Month for April: Beverley Martyn

For anyone interested in the British folk music scene of the 1960s and early 1970s, the name Beverley Martyn will surely be familiar. Beverley releases her new album 'The Phoenix And The Turtle'' on 21st April. Read our review here. We have an interview coming very soon.

Featured Artist of the Month for March: Sam Brookes

Kairos is a word from ancient Greece that measures time in quality rather than quantity, a perfect way to sum up playing the 10 tracks of this wonderful new album from Sam Brookes.
Review
Interview

We have some great Albums of the Month with indepth reviews, interviews and more. They include:

Exclusive Video: The Elizabethan Session

We provide the first behind the scenes look at ‘The Elizabethan Session’ featuring some of folk music’s best known artists: Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr, Jim Moray, Bella Hardy, John Smith, Hannah James, Rachel Newton and Emily Askew.
Watch it here and find out more.

Hothouse Festival – Sat 19th April 2014

Folk Radio UK are very pleased to be sponsoring Halsway Manor’s ‘Hothouse Festival’ once again, an acoustic folk-roots festival for the next generation. Great acts and we’ll be DJ’ing again.
Join us in Somerset for a great day.

As usual we have tons of news which you can catch up on by clicking here

We featured a heap of news including:
* O’Hooley & Tidow – The Hum Tour
* New Album from Blair Dunlop
* Bella Hardy's ‘Thirty for 30′ UK tour
* Anne Briggs Record Store Day release

Album Reviews

We also have 46 new album reviews. You can view a list of them here.

To download our April Covermount Mix click here.

The tracklisting is below with timings:
00:00 House Of Hats - Wonderland
03:32 Oysterband - A River Runs
07:59 Elephant Revival - Grace Of A Woman
11:28 Harp And The Monkey - The Manchester Angel
14:42 Robert Ellis - Sing Along
18:37 Sam Brookes - James
21:58 Beverley Martyn - Levee Breaks
25:30 The Bevvy Sisters - Junkyard Band
29:10 Bella Hardy - Whisky You're The Devil
32:05 Alister Atkin And The Ghost Line Carnival - Seadogs
35:41 The Men With Strong Arms - The Men With Strong Arms
40:41 Emily Smith - King Orfeo
45:16 Oliver Cherer - Croham Hurst
48:11 William Fitzsimmons - Hold On
51:22 The Young'uns - The Long Way Home
54:56 Fiona Rutherford - The Flying Dream
59:24 Henry Priestman - Goodbye Common Sense

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