Category: Folk

  • Nahawa Doumbia: Kanawa

    Nahawa Doumbia: Kanawa

    With a professional career spanning over 40 years, singer Nahawa Doumbia is one of the prominent performers of the south Malian Wassoulou style of music. A passionate advocate for peace, justice and women’s rights in her own country, the singer has also long been the…

  • Lau Nau: Poseidon

    Lau Nau: Poseidon

    Laura Naukkarinen – aka Lau Nau – is a Finnish singer songwriter and composer based in Kimito, Finland, 160km west of Helsinki. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, devoted sound designer and record collector, Lau Nau seamlessly blends elements of Finnish folk with modern classical, ambient and experimental…

  • Birds on a Wire: Ramages

    Birds on a Wire: Ramages

    Sur la place où tout est tranquilleUne fille s’est mise à chanter On the square, where everything is quietA girl has started singing Jacques Brel Franco-American singer songwriter Rosemary Standley and Brazilian-born singer and cellist Dominique Pinto (aka Dom La Nena) released their enchanting self-titled…

  • Brigid Mae Power: Head Above The Water

    Brigid Mae Power: Head Above The Water

    Following a first self-release in 2014 and two magnificent solo studio albums to date for Tompkins Square, namely her self-titled début in 2016 and The Two Worlds (2018), Galway and now London-based Irish visual artist and singer songwriter Brigid Mae Power has been ploughing her…

  • Inni-K: the hare & the line

    Inni-K: the hare & the line

    Born in Kildare and based in Dublin, Inni-K is an indie folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who also performs as a traditional Irish fiddler and singer under her own name Eithne Ní Chatháin – she released her first solo album titled Eithne in 2006. She was…

  • Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: There is no Other

    Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: There is no Other

    From the beginning of our musical partnership we have been struck with the commonality of the human experience through music; how instruments, modes and the very functions of songs and tunes are universal from culture to culture. In 2017, singer songwriter, banjo and fiddle player…

  • Lisa Hannigan and s t a r g a z e: Live in Dublin

    Lisa Hannigan and s t a r g a z e: Live in Dublin

    Dublin-based indie singer songwriter Lisa Hannigan has been touring and recording as a solo artist since 2007. During that time, her sound has been continually expanding – from the quirky, stripped back and self-produced Sea Sew (2008) to the superb chamber-folk At Swim (2016) where…

  • Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues

    Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues

    It feels like everyone’s in a pressure cooker in this country Born in New-York City of Haitian parents, cellist, banjo player and singer songwriter Leyla McCalla settled in New-Orleans in 2010. As time goes by, Leyla McCalla’s music is digging ever so deeper into the…