Alasdair Roberts | Emily Portman | Rachel Newton | Lucy Farrell

BBC Radio 2 Folk award winners of *Best Group* 2017

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New album | Fathoms | out now

​The Furrow Collective 
Fathoms
​November 2018 sees the release of the third album Fathoms by award-winning and acclaimed folk group The Furrow Collective. Produced in Powys and Oxfordshire by honorary fifth-Furrow Andy Bell Fathoms sees the group build further on their substantial reputation for breathing new life into traditional songs.
Fathoms captures typically innovative arrangements and sets 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).

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'One of the most refreshing interpreters of traditional song in the UK**** Songlines

'Close-knit harmonies hit home' Observer ****

'A rare band of distinctively individual singers and musicians who knit perfectly' *****fROOTS
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***** i newspaper

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'If the future of folk music sounds like Fathoms we are in safe hands indeed.' 
FRUK 
'Something of a delicacy to be savoured'
**** Northern Sky 
'Like The Unthanks, The Furrow Collective are adventurous in their interpretation of the traditional songbook of the British Isles' 
Scotsman
'Innovative arrangements, yet never losing the essence of their roots' 
FATEA

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WILD HOG

WILD HOG | 4.11.16
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November 2016 sees the release of the group's second album, Wild Hog, on new imprint Hudson Records.  Again produced by Andy Bell and building on the success of its predecessor, Wild Hog shows a marked development in the group's sound and approach, featuring guest musicians Alex Neilson (Trembling Bells) on drums and Stevie Jones (Sound of Yell) on double bass.  The Furrow Collective has toured extensively throughout the UK as well as in mainland Europe.  Lucy, Rachel, Emily and Alasdair will continue to tour around the release of Wild Hog and into the future, delighting audiences far and near with their uniquely beguiling approach to traditional song.

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