The Furrow Collective – The Crescent York

Please Please You & Black Swan Folk Club presents
The Furrow Collective
The Crescent, York
Sunday 8th September, 7.30pm
Tickets are £15 in advance (more on the door) and are available from Earworm Records, the venue in person or online via See Tickets.

Acclaimed folk group The Furrow Collective released their new album ‘Fathoms’ in November. Produced in Powys and Oxfordshire by honorary fifth-Furrow Andy Bell, ‘Fathoms’ was the group’s third album and sees them build further on their substantial reputation for breathing new life into traditional songs.

The twelve recordings of which Fathoms is comprised capture typically innovative arrangements and set the four distinctive voices in a magical, captivating sound-world. As with their previous collections, the impression is by turns ancient, evoking the lines back to the earliest source, and then altogether unknown; fresh as tomorrow morning.

The Furrow Collective is an English/Scottish band consisting of four talented and individually prominent performers: Lucy Farrell (viola, voice & saw), Rachel Newton (harp, fiddle, voice), Emily Portman (banjo, concertina, voice) and Alasdair Roberts (guitars, voice). The group formed in 2013, drawn together by a shared love of traditional song and balladry of the England, Scotland and beyond and an open, intuitive approach to collaboration. In recognition of their innovative approach, The Furrow Collective were awarded the accolade of 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Best Group’, hot on the heels of the release in late 2016 of their second album, Wild Hog (also on Hudson Records).

The Furrow Collective tours extensively throughout the UK as well as in mainland Europe, delighting audiences with their uniquely beguiling approach to traditional song. November 2018 sees the band touring England and Wales to launch the new album.

Press:

‘A bravely sparse and compelling new take on traditional songs… A quietly classy young folk band’
The Guardian

‘The Furrow Collective have an air of immeasurable antiquity, while at the same time making the songs vibrantly new.’
R2

‘A mouth-watering collaboration’
**** 4 Stars Mojo

‘One of the finest collaborative albums of the past few years’
Folk Radio UK