Farmer Phil’s Festival ’13 and Shrewsbury Flower Show
Looking out into the darkness from a high place, across a river – the hundred thousand lights are engulfed in rain. A warm rain like a cat that curls around every corner, a quiet voice from a more subtle world. The musical life has brought me here, far from my ancient hills, round, green and...
Video – Abel’s Harp performing ‘Canticle’
Abel’s Harp performing ‘Canticle’ on Fordhall Festival
Folk Radio Mix ‘The Tradition’
The British folk scene is a vibrant place to be in right now, the folk music tradition is constantly evolving as new artists re-interpret music of the past with their own twists and influences. This mix features both new and old music, including Bonnie Light Horseman. The Tradition by Folk Radio Uk on Mixcloud
Review “Northern Sky”
The Shropshire countryside is embedded in the very fabric of this first proper release by Jonathan Day, a writer, painter and poet whose curiosity has taken him around the world and back on a journey of self-discovery, from Johannesburg to the heart of the Black Country, his true inspirational home. Rich in atmosphere, the album...
Review “Folk Radio UK”
I like the quiet, the animals and the trees. It took me a long time to get here from where I grew up, in between factories, steel hard and iron grey. Long ago most of my family lived in these borderlands; I guess I’ve always been slowly heading home. There’s something important in the curve...
Review “System Records”
Contemporary rural music from Shropshire, sixteen years in the writing and making, this album collects together the work of vagabond songwriter and composer Jonathan Day. After two critically acclaimed albums and several years touring Europe, Jonathan moved out of the spotlight to follow a reclusive and itinerant life makjing music in his remote home in...