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Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2012 - Line up Revealed

Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2012 – Line up Revealed

by Alex 1 December 2011 Festivals

Shrewsbury Folk Festival has unveiled its line-up for next year’s event with Richard Thompson and Kate Rusby topping the bill.

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The Memory Band – New Video with Liam Bailey plus Mix

by Alex 12 August 2011 Uncategorized

Stephen Cracknell of the English folk collective The Memory Band recently put together a great mix featuring a wide spectrum of artists from Sandy Denny to Softcell! You can listen to it below. We’ve also included a great video of Stephen performing the track ‘Demon Days’ with Liam Bailey.

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Cotton Jones

by Alex 26 August 2010 Uncategorized

A new arrival on the station is Cotton Jones. The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can still exist and perfection is thrown to the [...]

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Introducing Lower Dens

by Alex 14 August 2010 Uncategorized

Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, Jana Hunter’s voice, and insistent drum throbs are the core components of Baltimore’s Lower Dens. Hunter, sometimes known for intimate, ghost-heavy weird-fi, is now writing and playing with a group that might get filed as new wave, or drone pop, or post-punk. With due deference to her solo work, we’re [...]

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Introducing: Jasper Sloan Yip

by Alex 6 August 2010 Uncategorized

Jasper Sloan Yip is a multi-genre singer/songwriter with a dynamic and versatile band behind him. His musical career began with the release of his solo debut “White Elephant” under the moniker “the Blenheim Street Project” in the summer of 2007. Recorded at home with a single broken microphone, “White Elephant” was the first and only [...]

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Songs from the past #2

by Alex 21 May 2010 Uncategorized

One of the greatest things about running Folk Radio UK is the amount of time I get to spend searching out both new and old music. If I was given half the chance, I would happily spend most of the day doing it, OK, and night! I came across this one during another late night [...]

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In the Pipe

by Alex 10 February 2010 Uncategorized

Just a few updates of things to come on FRUK…we’ve been inundated with music submissions so we’ve been catching up following the rebuild of our website in early January this year, we’ve still got a lot of catching up but we’re getting there. There are new artists and albums arriving on both streams that I [...]

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NEW SITE

by Alex 4 January 2010 Uncategorized

This blog is no longer used. Please visit our main site where all posts that appearded on here now reside. Click here to go there now

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Lakagígar (Craters of Laki)

by Alex 1 January 2010 Uncategorized
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Jozef Van Wissem

by Alex 9 December 2009 Uncategorized

It is always worth doing that extra bit of research on an artist. You may be none the wiser on listening to Jozef Van Wissem that his music is a mirror image of lute composition.  By that I mean backwards. When you do realise the complexity of what is going on you hear such music [...]

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The Frukie Stream

by Alex 20 November 2009 Uncategorized

There are some intersting developments happening on the Frukie stream…expect it to sound more eclectic and fun, is that the right word? I enjoyed adding the new music on there, expect more new arrivals over the next week.

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The Faces of the Independent Record Store

by Alex 27 October 2009 Uncategorized
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Go ahead for Scots Gaelic at EU

by Alex 8 October 2009 Uncategorized

A new agreement means Gaelic can now be used formally in meetings between Scottish government ministers and European Union (EU) officials.

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Castanets

by Alex 26 August 2009 Uncategorized
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Morning Rain

by Alex 20 August 2009 Uncategorized

Piano & Rain by Peter Broderick Something very peaceful about rain…the view at breakfast Thanks to my good mate Dan at Fluid Radio for introducing this album to me: more here

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Tea Break at Folk Radio UK

by Alex 19 August 2009 Uncategorized

and no, they are not all like this…I normally forget to have one as I get engrossed by the music…this book was an easy lure…it required the company of something sweet.

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Theo Angell

by Alex 19 August 2009 Uncategorized

Theo Angell is a new artist to the Frukie stream and is one which made an immediate impact. His latest album ‘Tenebrae’ is released on Amish Records. His music is both strange and beautiful with an incredible voice. Higher Something: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tenebrae: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [...]

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How to Live Off-Grid

by Alex 29 July 2009 Uncategorized

Many of us at some time or other have wished or dreamed about being off-grid. Well I have, and still do. I came across this book by Nick Rosen a while back and it made in interesting and inspiring read. Static or mobile – in a house or a hut, a boat or a campervan [...]

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