August 2022

Topic Records announce ‘Sea Song Sessions’, a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, featuring some of British folk music’s leading lights: Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter. Listen to the first single ‘The Rambling Sailor’.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared a gorgeous revitalized “Outsider” anthem, a cover version from one of the giants of the punk era, featuring a number of special guests including the dearly missed D.C. Berman.

Patrick Stefan is an Irish-Dutch singer and wayfarer; born in Co. Clare, now based in Dublin, listen to his latest single ‘Just another love song’, his take on a song written in the late ’60s by his father, Jack Groenland – a Dutch folk songwriter.

Watch the video for ‘It is Right to Give Drones and Praise’, the lead single from Ireland’s Tau & the Drones of Praise for their third full-length album, ‘Misneach’ which features guests from Tindersticks, Clannad as well as Irish troubadour Damien Dempsey.

Scottish folksinger and guitarist Kris Drever heads over to Ireland in September for a solo tour taking in Clonakilty International Guitar Festival and ending at Whelan’s in Dublin before heading back to the UK for an extensive run of November dates. Not to be missed.

Ahead of Gretchen Peters’ 25th Anniversary UK Tour, The Show captures a singular artist at the peak of her powers, covering a 22-year spectrum of outstanding songs.

Our Song of the Day is “I Needed You’, the lead single for Brooklyn-based folk songwriter Eliza Edens’ sophomore album We’ll Become the Flowers. Like a good photo, how you frame a subject makes all the difference, and Edens provides a masterclass in composition.

Todd Snider shares hilarious and heartwarming snapshots of his first shows since the pandemic on his new alive album – Live: Return Of The Storyteller. Watch the accompanying tour-diary style video for Just like Old Times.

Hushman is the new project from renowned folk musician, singer & songwriter Ewan MacPherson. Watch him performing ‘It’s all in the Distance’, our Song of the Day and the latest single from his forthcoming album.

Austin-based cosmic indie folk band The Deer, are warming up for the release of their new album The Beautiful Undead on Keeled Scales. Watch their latest video for their album single ‘Baby Green’.

Poor Creature is the new project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. While taking inspiration from the Irish tradition, their approach is experimental, edgy and refreshingly original.

Watch Nora Brown performing Wild Bill Jones with fiddle player Stephanie Coleman; plus, watch a recent clip of her performing with The Rheingans Sisters at Folkové Prázdniny.

Check out our latest Best New Folk & Roots Music Playlist featuring Jake Blount, Fritillaries, The Wilderness Yet, Anna Mieke, Jenny Sturgeon & M G Boulter, Dana Gavanski, Myles O’Reilly, Cerys Hafana, Sairie, Joseph Allred, Hushman, Alex Dupree and many more.

3hattrio’s Hal Cannon today shares the new single and video – Silver Dove – from his upcoming solo album project, Nothin’ Lastin’. He is joined by the Denver-based folk singer Mollie O’Brien, whose bright and airy vocal compliments his smooth baritone.