As TBCMF heads towards its fifth birthday, we are delighted to announce the return of country-pop crossover sensation Twinnie.
UK Country and Americana Music
Country Music September 2020: This Year Sucks
UK Scene Growing September was another difficult month for the music industry, as quick as restrictions were easing on the live sector they were...
Country Music August 2020: Virtual Tours
Innovative Ideas Although live music still remained on the back burner, the month of August did manage to deliver some outstanding records from our...
Country Music July 2020: Getting Creative In Lockdown
Blazing A Trail As summer officially arrived in the UK just as lockdown measures across the UK began to ease, British country music took another...
Sarah Darling : Sitting with songs longer and out of body experience at the Opry
SARAH DARLING Another day, another zoom call but this time, to catch up with one of my very good friends, Sarah Darling. Sarah is a true ‘honorary...
Let The Music Play
Support Live Music Today we join the #LetTheMusicPlay campaign to support the live music industry, as it struggles for survival. A letter is being...
Country Music June 2020: Blaze A Trail
Blaze A Trail June was an exciting month in terms of new releases from home-grown talent. Of course, we still lacked any live gigs due to the...
Country Music May 2020: Here Comes The Sun
Sarah Darling | The British Country Music Festival 2019 | Photo Credit Dave NelsonHold Space The month of May has seen some amazing and extremely...
Megan O’Neill: Surviving lockdown, touring with Tom Jones and playing the Oscars after party
MEGAN O'NEILL Well, for the first time in this first No Chords But The Truth series, I’m not strolling into Bertie Blossoms restaurant in Notting...
Country Music April 2020: Incredible Music Releases
Twinnie | The British Country Music Festival 2019 | Photo Credit Dave NelsonIncredible Music April has been another strange month with zero live...
Country Music March 2020: Challenges and Inspiration For The Country Family
Laura Oakes | The British Country Music Festival 2019 | Photo Credit Dave NelsonGlobal Outbreak Wow, well March has been a roller-coaster of a...
Twinnie: Women in Country Music, Mental Health and The Debut Album
TWINNIE So here I was with a big article reflecting on Twinnie’s comments in this episode of No Chords But The Truth podcast regarding women in...
Country Music February 2020:Is it better in blue jeans or orange jumpsuit?
Ward Thomas | The British Country Music Festival 2019 | Photo Credit Dave Nelson2020's Stellar Month January was an impressive month for UK...
Tim Prottey-Jones: Country Journey, West End Hiatus and the Difficult Bits
Did you know Ed Sheeran has his own restaurant? It’s called Bertie Blossoms, it’s located in Notting Hill and it’s where I met with Tim...
Jake Morrell: Stopping Music, Dermot O’Leary and Acceptance
It was just before Christmas when I met up with Jake Morrell in the rooftop terrace of the Karma Sanctum Hotel in Soho. It’s always fun to hang out...
Podcast No Chords But The Truth
With the current explosion in popularity of country and Americana music, The British Country Music Festival (TBCMF), is launching a new podcast...
Country Music January 2020: Country Music Kicking Off
Twinnie | The British Country Music Festival 2019 | Photo Credit Dave Nelson2020 Kicked Off In Style The ever-growing UK country and Americana music...
British Country Music Round Up 2019
Phenomenal year for the ever-growing British country music scene. 2019 has once again been a phenomenal year for the ever-growing British country...
Country and Americana Music Festival Launches In Blackpool
Ward Thomas, Catherine McGrath and Sarah Darling will headline The British Country Music Festival, a new, annual event that will take place from the...
Yola v Hootenanny
YOLA shines on Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny YOLA just became a new search term. I am writing this post on New Years Day 2019, having just...
New Country Music Festival Launches In Blackpool
Blackpool is set to welcome another major new event in 2019. The British Country Music Festival will launch at the Winter Gardens indoor entertainment complex running from the 13th to the 15th September 2019.
LATEST NEWS
This page is the primary blog category for the website. You will find news, reviews, blogs and articles For British Country Music. We will also feature The British Americana music scene.
We shall mainly feature music artists and songwriters born or living in the UK.
Undoubtedly, America and Nashville are the epicentres for Country Music. However, country music in the UK has had a niche following for many years. There is now a quickly growing ground swell of love.
The British Country Music Festival embraces that community. So you may be a super fan or just noticing the fantastic songwriting and musicians we have in the UK.
There are a handful of breakthrough artists, including The Shires, Ward Thomas, Wandering Hearts, The Staves, Catherine McGrath and WildwoodKin. But there are new artists and songwriters making waves about to break through. With a whole ecosystem supporting them. With exciting new festivals, gigs, venues, record companies and fans supporting them.
Our genre is so close to becoming mainstream that national radio stations are playing more country music. Subsequently, mainstream artists are starting to make Country and Americana-sounding tracks.
For social media, we will use the hashtag #UKcountrymusic to promote this category.
Examples of what posts to expect in this category include A GREAT YEAR FOR BRITISH COUNTRY MUSIC and YOLA v HOOTENANNY.
The category and festival are all about supporting new talent and acts. The class will feature news and releases from new bands and singers, for example, Raintown, Dexeter, Laura Oakes, Sasha McVeigh and Holloway Road.