Quests across continents, journeys into the past, family holiday disasters or wild dreams of a new life – here are your escape routes
September 2022
The Book of the Gaels by James Yorkston review – a lyrical, child’s-eye view of an Irish road trip
The folk musician’s picaresque tale of a struggling Scottish writer and his sons en route from Cork to Dublin quietly captures artistic failure and redemption
December 2021
Best music of 2021
The 10 best folk albums of 2021
From Doran’s intimate take on Appalachian and eastern European music to Welsh-Indian collab Khasi-Cymru Collective, and John Francis Flynn’s folk-horror vibrations
December 2020
Best music of 2020
The 10 best folk albums of 2020
Folk artists this year drew inspiration from China, south Asia and the wildness of the sea on the way to making stirring and vital music
April 2017
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan: Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars review – improbable trio work wonders again
(Domino)
December 2016
James Yorkston review – riotous celebration of the modern troubadour
Yorkston reunites with tour buddies Johnny Lynch and Dan Wilson for a night of perfect harmonies and easy banter – with a guest appearance from Jarvis Cocker
March 2016
What’s your fantasy festival?
We asked some old festival hands what would be in their field of dreams. This is what they said…
January 2016
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan review – freewheeling cross-cultural fun at Celtic Connections
Jokes and intriguing sonic mashups arise from the teaming of Scots folk musician James Yorkston, Lamb bassist Jon Thorne and Indian sarangist Suhail Yusuf Khan
This fusion of Scottish folk, jazz and Indian devotional sarangi somehow works
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan: Everything Sacred review – bravely original Indian-folk-jazz fusion
Suhail Yusuf Khan, James Yorkston and Jon Thorne on Indian sarang, guitar and double bass are worth checking out
September 2014
James Yorkston review – a bumper harvest of witty wassailing
when James Yorkston’s new Cellardyke album of melancholy folk gains in charm and humour played live with his friends, writes Mark Beaumont
August 2014
The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society review – James Yorkston in reflective mood
James Yorkston: The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
August 2013
Fence Records: a fond farewell
Last week's Green Man festival featured the final gig by Fife's Fence Records collective. It marked the end of an era, writes Laura Barnett
July 2013
Beck: Song Reader – review
A starry cast – Jarvis Cocker, the Mighty Boosh, Charlotte Gainsbourg – join Beck in playing some great songs he wrote but has yet to record, writes Ian Gittins
February 2013
Other Voices festival – review
A new venue and a bad bout of laryngitis did not take the edge off an exciting mix of talent old and new, writes Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Other Voices festival goes to Derry – day three in pictures
The last day of the Other Voices festival featured performances from Beth Orton and James Yorkston
Other Voices festival comes to Derry
The 2013 City of Culture hosts Other Voices with a lineup including Beth Orton, Neil Hannon and Savages, before the festival moves to London in April
August 2012
James Yorkston: 'I need a badge that says: It's all right, I do have a job'
