Harvest of Highlights

  • Ely Folk Festival 2025 Review

    If folk music is the people’s music, as I still firmly believe it is, then the overriding mindset and spirit of the indelible movement is that of a musical community with a common language in sound and story telling expression. So, within those parameters it might seem at odds with the ethos for there to… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 14th July 2025

    Madeline Kenney – Semitones We kick off with some emotive and sonic intensity this week as Madeline Kenney makes unflinching eye contact with the viewer through the camera lens leaving you in no doubt as to the conviction in her song. ‘Semitones’ addresses, in Madeline’s words, the moment when you “start to dread someone instead… Read more

  • Old Fruit 11th July 2025

    The Magpie Arc – Autumn Leaves In anticipation of this weekends Ely Folk Festival, which will be reviewed next week on this site, here are a few anticipated highlights from the line-up over the coming three days. The Magpie Arc are a cross-border folk supergroup featuring Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom. A Wright, Alex Hunter… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 7th July 2025

    Lois Levin – Sugar Taken from her new EP ‘Motions’ released on the Baltic Jazz label, this is a lovely soulful ballad to kick off the new music selections this week. Lois has been slow building a catalogue of jazz inflected songs via single and EP releases for a couple of years that started to… Read more

  • July 2025 Playlist

    I don’t like cricket… I love it! That was the kind of mood I found myself in when compiling this months 75 track playlist. Put it down to the current heatwave gripping the UK, in conjunction with some delightfully gripping entertainment delivered by our much maligned summer sport, not to mention my laid back ice… Read more

  • Old Fruit 27th June 2025

    The Waterboys – When Ye Go Away As it is Glastonbury weekend I thought it topical to share a few of the Fruit Tree Records Glastonbury favourites from over the years for this weeks vintage selection. The Waterboys are an act whose free flowing, boundary tumbling, questing romantic spirit have summed up the essence of… Read more