Our latest Folk Show features music from John McCusker‘s new album “The Best of”; John is our current Artist of the Month; make sure you read our recent in-depth interview with him here. John McCusker & Friends are playing City Halls, Glasgow, on 22nd January at Celtic Connections – details here.
We also have new music from Elly Lucas, Doug Paisley, Rozi Plain, Fantastic Negrito, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra, Duncan Chisholm, Burnt Paw and Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy.
Also included is a track from Hello Sorrow – Hello Joy, a 2020 album from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Three Queens in Mourning featuring Alex Neilson, Jill O’ Sullivan and Alasdair Roberts and Luigi Pasquini.
We also have a few tracks from artists not previously featured on Folk Radio:
Úna Monaghan is a harper, composer and sound artist from Belfast, Ireland. Her creative work is an expressional trajectory and cross-section of composition and performance work, from its roots in Irish traditional music to experimental music, electroacoustic music and live electronics.
Her debut solo album For was released in 2018. Her new album, Aonaracht is a ground-breaking combination of Irish traditional and experimental electronic music, a collection of original pieces for solo traditional musician and computer. It’s a completely new soundworld created by Úna and recorded by six of Ireland’s foremost performers, including Paddy Glackin, Pauline Scanlon and Jack Talty. Each piece is a unique combination of the traditional musician, their instrument, and electronics.
Kate Dineen hails from the South-West of Ireland and is now based in Dublin. She tells us that “Night Creatures is a song about looking back on a past relationship or situationship, about acknowledging the good and bad of those times and reflecting on what you’ve learned. It’s a calm and gentle tune that is perfect to ease you into the new year.”
West Cork native Molly O’Mahony’s power lies in her ability to feel deeply and to convey that feeling through her words and her voice. Her main mark on the music of Mongoose, both in writing and performance, is the raw emotion at its core.
With a back pocket full of personal songs – extensions of her compulsive journaling habit and products of all the life she had lived – she was compelled to step out, strip it all back, and make an album that reflected her particular emotional experience of moving through the world.
The House of David is the product of her two years under lockdown, during which time she wrote, honed, and recorded the songs which tell the turbulent story of her twenties; a journey through living, loving, failing and creating in the city that made her the artist she is.
The playlist is below, along with purchase links and features on Folk Radio.
Music Played
- Elly Lucas – When The Boat Comes In (In The Quiet Of The Waiting)
Bandcamp - Kate Dineen – Night Creatures
- Doug Paisley – Sometimes It’s So Easy (Say What You Like)
Bandcamp | featured - Rozi Plain – Complicated (Prize)
Bandcamp - Charlie Parr – On Fading Away (Last of the Better Days Ahead)
Bandcamp | Review - Fantastic Negrito – Highest Bidder (Acoustic) (Grandfather Courage)
Featured - Pharis & Jason Romero – Cannot Change It All (Tell ‘Em You Were Gold)
Bandcamp | Review - James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra – The Harmony (The Great White Sea Eagle)
Bandcamp | Review - Molly O’Mahony – I Cling To You (House of David)
Bandcamp - Three Queens in Mourning/Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – No Such As I Want
(Hello Sorrow – Hello Joy)
Bandcamp - Úna Monaghan – The Chinwag (Aonaracht)
Website - John McCusker – Wee Michael’s March (Best of)
Review | Interview | Pre-Order (out 27 Jan) - Duncan Chisholm – Mìorbhail nam Beann (Black Cuillin)
Review | Order - Burnt Paw – Feast of Shadow (Levitation Songs)
Out on 23rd Feb (digital form and limited cassette tape format) – Bandcamp - Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy – Offering (Nakshatra)
Feature | Bandcamp