alt folk

• Music / contemporary classical

  Coming out of hiding

  This year's Hidden Notes Festival offers another rich menu of genre-bending experimentalists

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• Music / new releases

  DIY dream-pop LP is an ethereal escape

  The debut LP from Bristol artist herbal tea is both wistful and glistening

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• Music / folk and roots

  Bristol’s month in Folk and Roots – September 2025

  After a summer of flying free at festivals, Bristol gigs are back with a vengeance

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• Music / Get To Know

  Get to Know: Âellin

  Multi-instrumentalist Siân Magill talks feminism, Proust, soundworlds and so much more

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• Music / folk

  Bristol’s month in Folk & Roots – August 2025

  A quiet month for gigs means the more intimate events take the spotlight

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Les Caravanes, Bristol Folk House – ‘A folk revolution’

  A roving folk club drops in to Park Street

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• Music / new releases

  Geoff Barrow releases single for War Child

  The remixed track features members of Irish doom-folk band Lankum

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Ann Liu Cannon, Rough Trade – ‘Fury bubbles beneath beauty’

  Radiant on a hot day, Cannon belongs in a sweet, wholesome folk club setting

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