Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith - Wakefire: A Summer Album [CD + Book]

Cat. no: LMCD06
Format: CD CD + Book
Barcode: 5051078025124
Release Date: 01 May 2026
Genre: Folk

After several years delighting audiences with their hugely loved wintertime project Awake Arise, the folk supergroup of Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans & Hazel Askew) and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, have joined their considerable creative forces again, this time to celebrate the summer

Their highly anticipated second collaboration Wakefre: A Summer Album releases on May Day 2026 as a special double length album-book.

If the frst album Awake Arise established this group as trusted makers of deep and multi- disciplinary folk, then Wakefre delves deeper into the possibilities of both an album and live show, weaving song, prose, poetry and musique concrete into a journey for the audience. At 27 tracks, Wakefre bucks the emergent trend of ephemeral shorter releases. It's a return to the long form, a double length album, beftting its reverence for the longest days of the year; an invitation to a more immersive and unfolding listening experience.

Tracks: Summer's In / The Cuckoo / On May Morning / Following the Old Oss/ Padstow May Song / May Day / The Ant and the Grasshopper / May Morning Dew / Staines Morris / Midsummer Divinations / Sweet Lemeney / Limu / Midnight / Mikaelidagen / Free Party / I'm Going in a Field / River Came Back / Aftermath / Yellow Sun / What'cha Gonna Do? / Fires / Ligo / Longest Hot Summer / Another Summer / Harvest Festival / Harvest Song / That Was How It Was / Good As Gone