The strength of Mairearad Green & Rachel Newton’s distinctive boundary-pushing “Anna Bhàn” doesn’t lie in nostalgia…it is history in the very living sense of the word, ripe and ardent, and not afraid to look forward.
Celebrating its 32nd year, Celtic Connections has made its first lineup announcement for its 2025 festival. It will be held across 25 venues in Glasgow from Thursday, 16 January to Sunday, 2 February 2025.
Discover The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session on November 22, and hear the first track today: “Beautiful Child”, a marvellously rambling minor key version of Fleetwood Mac’s original.
To celebrate twenty years on the road, Megson delve into their northern roots to bring fresh life to the traditional ballad “The Oak & The Ash”, also our Song of the Day. Don’t miss their 20 Years On The Side Tour.
A welcome return to a solo platform and a springboard to new musical paths, The Winter Yards reaffirms Steve Knightley’s amply deserved reputation and status as one of the foremost names on the English folk scene.
The Instruments was a project centred around cellist and composer Heather McIntosh. Released in 2008, Dark Småland has both blissful and melancholic moments, with vast vistas to lighten the soul.
Listen to our latest Mixtape – The Standing Stones (Jim Cauty) featuring Alasdair Roberts, Stick in the Wheel, Jake Blanchard, Seckou Keita, Flaer, SO SNER, Shovel Dance Collective, Jack Rose, Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly, Sally Anne Morgan, Resonant Bodies and more.
Jake Blanchard has made a union with the divine on Fermentation. It’s an album with the whomp of Elkhorn and the godliness of Tuluum Shimmering. Think of sound waves being dosed out to herbal plants. Close your eyes and drown in its wyrd bliss.
London-based artist Cassie Kinoshi will present a specially curated programme alongside the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican on Thursday, 21st November 2024. Kinoshi’s regular band seed. will also perform at the show entitled Nature’s HEART
Rose City Band announce new album Sol Y Sombra and share song “Lights on the Way” – “This time, I couldn’t avoid the shadow being more of a presence. There’s no getting away from it. The shadow is always there. So, I left it in.”
For all of the enjoyable free expression present across Blake Hornsby’s ‘A Village of Many Springs’, there is also a real sense of musicianship and creativity; it’s an exhilarating listen. Pull up a chair and allow it to wash over you.
