Daddy is Seb Nesta and Daddy is cool. He's the charismatic lead singer of a wonderful reggae, rap and roots band that can be heard making pulsating music around the French resort of Le Lavandou this summer. High Love Roots... Read more →
July 2022: no pressing reason to update what I wrote in 2011. No looming anniversary I'm aware of, no hitherto unknown detail. It's just that every so often, I think about Bert Jansch, the exceptional music he made and the... Read more →
June 2021/July 2022 updates: re-reading this item first published in Salut! Live's Song of the Day series 10 or 11 years ago, I am struck by a phrase I used to describe why the rationale for the Northern Ireland peace... Read more →
Salut! Live is essentially a folk music site. Every so often it veers off in other directions ... On stage at the open-air Pinede arena in the French Riviera resort of Juan-Les-Pins, Paul Anka cruised with impressive professionalism and style... Read more →
July 2022 update; reposted because the clip of Kate Rusby's own singing of her charming song was leading to a dead end. It has now been replaced and is the last video shown in this article ... Choirs can work... Read more →
Kate Bush and I do not have that much in common. I have always liked her music but have never seen her live, or met her. She was once interviewed by a Colin who writes about folk music but that... Read more →
