Olivia Chaney: A New Wave Of British Folk

Olivia Chaney is part of the latest wave of British folk music, although her definition of “folk” is as likely to include Baroque music, Norwegian jazz, and original songs as it is old murder ballads or sea shanties. Chaney plays an assortment of instruments, including guitar and piano, and has a strikingly pure vocal tone.

Her debut full-length, The Longest River, is on Nonesuch Records, and while performing a brief set at a Nonesuch 50th anniversary event last year, she so impressed her label-mate Robert Plant that he asked her to open for him during his fall run of shows at BAM.

Hear what Plant heard as Olivia Chaney performs three of her own songs, live in the Soundcheck studio.