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Folk music

July 2024

  • Stealers Wheel Posed In Denmark<br>COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - April 01: Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty from Stealers Wheel posed outside Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1974 (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns)

    Joe Egan obituary

  • Arooj Aftab at Omeara, London.

    Artist of the week
    Arooj Aftab review – crackling wit and songs of elegiac beauty

  • Laura Marling relaxing on a sofa with the top of her daughter's head just visible beside her.

    ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

  • “It’s a way of life, an identity” … Las Flores del Changüí.

    ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

June 2024

  • Drama and delicacy … Peiriant’s Dan and Rose Linn-Pearl.

    Folk album of the month
    Peiriant: Dychwelyd review – iridescent soundscapes summon spirit of the mountains

    Violinist Rose Linn-Pearl and sound artist husband Dan weave their artistry into a vivid collection evoking the natural wonders of their Welsh home
  • Linda Thompson seated with an acoustic guitar

    Linda Thompson: Proxy Music review – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

    The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great

    • Daniel Kramer obituary

    • The Zawose Queens: Maisha review – vocal power and family stories

    • One to watch
      One to watch: Tiny Habits

May 2024

  • Richard Thompson holding an electric guitar

    Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore review – another collection of beautifully gruelling material

  • Landless.

    Folk album of the month
    Landless: Lúireach review – fans of Celtic music should flock to this stunning sound

  • Richard Thompson wth a guitar singing on stage at York Barbican

    Richard Thompson review – a showcase for decades of exquisite craft

  • Three guitarists performing on stage

    Spunk Records goes out on a high: ‘Like a mixtape from your coolest friend’

  • Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine review – Canadian banjo virtuoso packs a powerful punch

  • Spider John Koerner obituary

  • Vaychiletik review – beautifully-shot Mexican folk music study in the high arthouse style

  • Sean Khan: Sean Khan Presents the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble review – classics reinvigorated

  • ‘I’ve got the Hovis ad in one ear and the Battle of Orgreave in the other’: my obsession with brass bands

  • ‘Coming out, it was like a veil was lifted’: Indigo Girls on homophobia, hope and their big Barbie moment

  • Folk album of the month
    Goblin Band: Come Slack Your Horse! review – rowdy, flamboyant folk

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