Katherine Priddy’s ‘The Pendulum Swing’, is an incredibly cohesive album. With the central theme being the notion of home, it hits the heart and mind with pinpoint accuracy.
Taken from her Merge debut ‘Bite Down’, listen to Rosali’s new single “On Tonight”. “…I kind of wrote the song from the P.O.V. of Eve seducing the snake and the narrative began to unfold as a lust for life”
Iron & Wine announces his seventh full-length album, Light Verse, described as his most playful, with its title reflecting how the songs were born with joy after the heaviness and anxiety of the pandemic. Watch the accompanying lyric video for “You Never Know”.
In a follow-up to his homespun 2020 gem Bobby Joe Hope, Jon McKiel returns on May 3rd with Hex. Listen to the title track – “Sometimes observing systems and people on the brink of collapse, it feels as though there is a hex on all of us…”
In 2005 a film was made of the Green Man Festival in Wales. It has been unreleased and unseen for nearly 20 years and features performances by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Alasdair Roberts and Joanna Newsom, among others.
Michael McGoldrick and Family put on a great show at Celtic Connections for the launch of their debut album, One For The Road. The passion, talent, and exceptional versatility meant they all had much to be proud of.
Taken from her new album ‘Coming Home’, watch Cara Dillon’s new video for her latest single ‘Giving’, inspired by her 92-year-old mother; within it lies a distilled reflection of Irish hospitality and generosity.
Andy Skellam’s latest album, Brighten up the Place, is a bountiful offering of well-crafted, warmly sung, surreally poetic and calming pastoral folk. Don’t miss his album tour which kicks off this week.
Released this month on Mississippi Records, Souvenirs is a lost and found recording of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, on which supple flowing vocal melodies meet irregular piano phrasing as Emahoy’s hands roam freely. It’s an amazing hoard of personal, spiritual and national yearnings.
Transatlantic Sessions never fails to deliver, and with Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves now members of the house band, alongside guests that included Lindsay Lou, Kim Carnie, Joshua Burnside and Carlene Carter, it was another unforgettable evening.
Despite its 50+ years vintage, the music featured on the ‘Les Cousins: The Soundtrack Of Soho’s Legendary Folk & Blues Club’ boxset is exciting, vibrant and from some of the best players and performers of any era.
An exceptional and quite mesmerising performance by Amy Laurenson, a pianist from the Shetland Isles, followed by Celtic Fiddle Festival’s top-class musicianship, all made for a highly engaging and enjoyable evening of music.
