After stunning fans at Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Music Festival last week, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have released their new album, Seedlings All. Watch their stunning video to ‘Chicago’ by award winning filmmaker Bob Gallagher below! In addition to their festival appearances, they played a co-headline show at Thornbury Theatre and performed on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show. Listen to the interview and performance here. Clarke and...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker shared a new single ‘Bathed In Light’ from their forthcoming album Seedlings All which will be released physically Friday 9 March and digitally Friday 23 March in Australia. Catch the duo perform their debut Australian shows this March at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Full tour details below. Josienne explains the background to the song, “As...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker announce their new album, Seedlings All, released on Friday 23 March and have shared the stunning new track ‘Chicago’ with its accompanying video by award winning filmmaker Bob Gallagher. Watch below! Catch the duo perform their debut Australian shows this March at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Full tour details below. Seedlings All is Josienne Clarke &...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will have their debut Australian performances in March 2018. Performing at MODERN FOLK! FROM BRITAIN at the Thornbury Theatre Melbourne with fellow British singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop. They will also perform at Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Music Festival. What truly sets the duo apart is the combination of Josienne’s divinely nuanced, emotionally affecting voice and Ben’s intricately expressive, adroit guitar technique. Ben...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker share their six track EP, The Birds, out now both digitally and as a very limited edition 12”. Josienne and Ben will play their debut Australian shows this coming March as a part of Port Fairy Folk Festival. Further detials below! The Birds is a suite of six songs that explore the themes of migration and departure. These are songs of autumn and shorter days, of flying...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have announced new single ‘Nine Times Along’ from their latest album Overnight. Listen below! Josienne & Ben have also just been nominated in the ‘Best Duo’ category at this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Awards will take place on 5th April at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The fifth time they have been nominated for awards in various categories since 2014, including winning...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have released their new album Overnight, out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control. Of the record, Clarke explains her exploration of the evocative but elusive nature of memory.
“I’ve always been fascinated that within a moment you can be transported backwards in time by a sight, sound or smell. It is fleeting and bittersweet that you never know when these glimpses of the...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker reveal the video for ‘Something Familiar’, taken from their new album Overnight to be released on October 14 via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The video was directed and produced by Bob Gallagher who has been nominated for the UKMVA Best Rock/ Indie Video – Newcomer for Girl Band’s ‘In Plastic’ Video as well as being selected for the Raindance Film Festival with Girl Band’s video for ‘Paul’. As Josienne Clarke explains, ‘Something Familiar’ is about the evocative but...
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To celebrate the announcement of Overnight, the forthcoming debut album by Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, they share first single ‘The Waning Crescent’. The album follows their Rough Trade debut EP, Through The Clouds, which was released earlier this year. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker won Best Duo at the 2015 BBC Folk Awards. Their rendition of the traditional ballad The Banks of The Sweet Primroses at the televised awards ceremony prompted 6...
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