Now there's a place for Instrumental music. It's Wednesdays on Ventipop. Each hump day, I'll feature a new, deserving instrumental track to tap your toes to, bob your head to, cry a tear to or in this week's case...long for a simpler time with Pa and his fiddle playing by the fire into the night.
Sam Sweeney's "Red" is our instrumental this week. Sam Sweeney has been nominated four times, and winner in 2015, of Musician Of The Year BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam is a veteran of the mighty Bellowhead, former and inaugural artistic director of the National Youth Folk Ensemble, founder member of the acclaimed instrumental trio Leveret, and "one of the defining English fiddle players of his generation" (Mark Radcliffe) at the forefront of the revival in English traditional music.
After embarking on a solo career, releasing his debut solo album The Unfinished Violin on Island Records and touring it to sell-out crowds in 2019, Sam is releasing his highly anticipated second solo album, Unearth Repeat, March 27, 2020.
