November 2020

Jim Ghedi unveils new video for ‘Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters’ filmed in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and taken from his new album In The Furrows Of Common Place due in January 2021 on Basin Rock.

The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return with a new single for the traditional song ‘The parting Glass’. An unforgettable moving moment.

Gwenifer Raymond’s ‘Strange Lights over Garth Mountain’ feels like a huge leap forward from her debut. Daring and complex it highlights the progressive nature of Raymond’s playing perfectly.

Georgia Ruth announces Mai:2, a collection of reworks/remixes of 4 tracks from her third album. Watch the accompanying video for Gwenno’s reworking of Terracotta.

For this coming weekend Shooglenifty will stream their live album launch video “Shooglenifty: Live in Balquhidder” via standrews.fairsaturday.org in aid of the Jaipur Heritage Trust.

Sun Collective provides Move\\Remove with the kind of sonic energy that requires a fearlessness to explore, but the results pay dividends.

This first compilation from Raelach Records offers 56 minutes of first-class Irish music. Superbly executed, entertaining and delightful and as a bonus supports artists who have been deprived of opportunities to do what they love.

To celebrate his 40th birthday this December, Highland born accordionist Gary Innes has announced the release of his first-ever tunebook. Packed full of over 80 self-penned tunes and songs.

Leyla McCalla has taken huge leaps forward from this mature solo launch pad but, with this timely re-issue, it is an album that remains ripe for wider discovery; its delights are many and varied indeed.

Over the course of the four songs on Day Inside A Night, Brittain Ashford and Matt Bauer establish themselves as singers and songwriters unafraid to look at their world and expose themselves, flaws and all. No one could ask for more.

Now More Than Ever demonstrates that the Cape Breton tradition is in very safe hands with McNally and her band: a delightful, enticing and thoroughly exhilarating release.

Beattie’s “Somewhere Round The Bend” is an album for reverie and relaxing, of raising a glass to what was and a candle to what might be, the boy done good indeed.

The Superwolves return…watch the video for “Make Worry For Me”, the new single from Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “it’s a manifesto, and we can only hope to learn from it.”

An entrancing and memorable interpretation of a fine collection of classic folk songs from LAU. As an EP it is a perfect selection of a rich and beguiling set of tunes.