Manchester is set to become the centre of the international folk world at the end of October. Back in full swing after last year’s enforced hiatus, the 2021 Manchester Folk Festival, which runs from October 21 to 23 across five...
Read MoreSomehow, there are people still around who believe that ‘all folk music sounds the same’ or that it’s solely made by, and for, blokes with beards. Manchester Folk Festival is just the sort of event that these naysayers need to...
Read MoreAs festival destinations go, Underneath the Stars takes place at one of the UK’s most attractively named places: Cinderhill Farm. This carefully crafted three-day music and arts event in Cawthorne, South Yorkshire is only...
Read More“In a way it’s been quite exciting to keep getting asked if calling this album Midnight and Closedown means it’s going to be our last album,” says guitarist and singer Kris Drever, one third of the multi-award winning...
Read MoreIt is known as the Cotton Panic. The Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-1865 was a calamitous depression in the North West’s textile industry. It followed the boom years of 1859 and 1860 which had produced more woven...
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