On the 24th August 2018, FAIRYTALE are going to release their second album „Autumn’s Crown“ by the label Magic Mile Music. After their first album “Forest of Summer” (2015), they embark on another mystic and magical journey and present themselves even more electic and full of life. The still young band has ripened in their msuic – many different facet’s (more…)
50 years ago, they performed together fort he first time – the three sibling Pol, Viaran and Maire (Moya). As well as the anniversary of Leo’s Tavern, origin of the traditional family band, they are going to celebrate their new album’s release “Turas 1980” (Gaelic for “trip” or “journey”) on the 13th July. CLANNAD is predecessor of today’s ‘Celtic Music’ and (more…)
The Blues Blast Magazine has announced the nominees for the 2018 Blues Blast Award.
Muddy Waters’ “Live At Rockpalast” is nominated for two categories:
– Live Blues Recording
– Historical or Vintage Recording
That’s amazing but winning would be even better. So go vote!
Voting is open to anyone who is subscribed to the Blues Blast Magazine (subscription is free) from the (more…)
On the 26th January 2018, he published his latest album “Words From The Wilderness”. He is represented on the Top 100 of the Dutch online charts by song “Back On Track” for already 14 weeks now! Just brilliant! Of course we are very excited and happy about that. At the moment, he’s got 49th place and we are hoping for it (more…)
They want to share their view of the world with the people and do so by the motto “Spirit – Oneness – Unity – Love” – for the album just “Oneness”.
We are very excited to hear that Soul Basement and their message made it to “Album Of The Week” on the Dutch online charts “Hit-Tracks Top 100″. Furthermore, their (more…)
Black as Chalk release music video for their Single Snake Handler.
New album Ouro by the band from Göttingen to be released September 14th 2018.
For this, the Band produced a video with filmmakers EneMeneMovie from Göttingen, in which Florian Donath from Deutsches Theater Göttingen plays the leading role. From this emerged a captivating music video where the protagonist flees through a kafkaesque office maze from ‒ literally ‒ faceless colleagues.
The (more…)
With sadness we have heard of Liam O’Flynn’s death. We address all our condolences to Liam’s family and dear friends. Liam was a founding member of the influental Irish folk music band PLANXTY with Christy Moore, Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny. After the band broke up, O’Flynn worked with Kate Bush, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler, among others, and released a (more…)
„Tales are singing“ – Fairytale is going back to the roots of folk music: the band is combining old Celtic myths and modern fantasy in their concert story.
A return to acoustic guitar music with Irish Folk, Pop Folk elements and lots of own ideas, band founder and guitarist Oliver Oppermann composed his first songs, back in 2013. In the founding (more…)
„…it’s difficult to think of comebacks more impeccable than Van der Graaf Generator’s”, the BBC wrote in awe about the over 50 years old progressive rock band’s reunion.
At the time, Peter Hammill (guitar, keyboards, singer), Hugh Banton (organ, piano), Guy Evans (drums) as well as David Jackson (saxophone, cross flute) Van der Graaf Generator’s “original line up”.
In the prior years, Peter (more…)
Besides their very successful albums such as “God’s Own Medicine” (1986), “Children” (1988) and above all “Carved In Sand” (1989), “The Mission” primarily established themselves as a live band: whether as a support act for (i.e.) “U2” or “The Cure” or as famous European festivals’ headliner – or on their own distinct tours. Wayne Hussey stresses in a lot of interviews (more…)