Clare Teal's got oldies...and newies

8:51am Thursday 7th February 2008

These songs are like an old cardigan - you put them on and they feel comfortable and familiar."

There’s frost and fire for first family of folk

5:22pm Thursday 6th December 2007

Folk legends Waterson:Carthy are at The Priestley this month.

	Grace Notes launch new CD
	8:36am Thu 6 Dec 07
	Grace Notes have been together for 14 years but still get excited about finding new songs to perform.

	Chase that never ends for Hutchings
	8:32am Thu 6 Dec 07
	In the pantheon of modern English folk music the name of Ashley Hutchings belongs with Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell and Dave Swarbrick.

	Time for the talking to stop for on-tour Peter
	8:16am Thu 13 Sep 07
	At the pre-arranged time for our telephone interview Peter Grant was due to do a "pre-record" for a radio station.

	Beck’s inspired by local folk in Haworth
	7:57am Thu 23 Aug 07
	Circles within circles and the repetition of family ties are themes woven throughout Wuthering Heights - and for singer Beck Siàn that will certainly be the case when she performs at Haworth Festival next week.

	Dean Friedman's thanking his lucky stars
	8:14am Thu 5 Jul 07
	Dean Friedman will forever be associated with the line "We can thank our lucky stars that we're not as smart as we like to think we are."

	Clare’s riding a carousel to success
	8:22am Fri 1 Jun 07
	When Michael Parkinson conferred his favour on Clare Teal's new album, Paradisi Carousel, and Terry Wogan played tracks from it on his BBC Radio 2 show, she must have been relieved as well as gratified.

	The streets that just go on forever
	9:15am Thu 12 Apr 07
	An obvious question that Ralph McTell must have been asked a million times: Why did he choose to re-release Streets of London in 1974, six years after its appearance on his album Spiral Staircase?

	Festival set to be a family-friendly affair
	4:28pm Wed 4 Apr 07
	Bradford-born tour manager Simon Foster is teaming up with former Beautiful South drummer Dave Stead to bring a major folk festival, featuring chart-toppers The Proclaimers, to Yorkshire this summer.

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