Those ballrooms of romance are long gone, but as long as people like Ultan Conlon keep making music like this fabulous album, their souls, spirits, and the old songs will continue to live on.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew featuring Stranded Horse, King Tuff, Dream Stitch, Ghost Woman, Spirit Fest, Jolie Holland, Brown Horse, Cory Hanson, Naima Bock, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Tenniscoats, Vanishing Twin, The Handsome Family, Mipso, Lael Neale, John Andrews & The Yawns, Mapache, Woods, Cut Worms & more.

For those less familiar with John Fahey’s later catalogue, Proofs and Refutations is a great starting point, juxtaposing elegant acoustic picking, crazed vocals in places and distorted guitar. For the rest of you, just enjoy this wonderfully rich and idiosyncratic set.

Today, marks the release of Eternity Near, the new album from Ulster trio TRÚ. Watch their spellbinding new video for ‘Is Fada Liom Uaim Í’ that they learned from Kevin Burke and Micheál Ó Domhnaill’s 1982 Portland album.

Having become mainstays of the folk, roots and acoustic scene, Gilmore & Roberts’ ‘Documenting Snapshots’ is a magnificent, mercurial album that will cement and further enhance their reputation as purveyors of the finest-quality music.

Lankum did us proud at last night’s Mercury Prize for which their fourth album, False Lankum, was nominated. Watch them performing ‘Go Dig My Grave’. Radie Peat learned the song from the singing of Jean Ritchie, who recorded it in 1963.

Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell self-released their first duo album, You, Golden, almost a year ago. Make sure to attend their tour, which kicks off this month. Here are some excellent reasons why you should make the effort…

Talking about “Carrying”, Sally Anne Morgan says: “So much of what we accumulate and carry around with us burdens us, but we also can’t or don’t know how to let go.” Through her music, she leaves you feeling that, in a world full of perils, love can surely overcome all.

Ahead of her upcoming tour, watch a stunning live performance of Goodnight World by Lisa O’Neill, captured by Myles O’Reilly, Donal Dineen and Daniel O’Neill “… Lisa…never fails to make my hair stand up with her honest beauty, was such a thrilling and rewarding experience.”

Unfolding at its own pace, Spirit Fest finds the mystical core of their music on Bear in Town. Not a moment is truly rushed, unfolding precisely, forging musical connections that touch the soul of what makes us human.

We catch up with JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter and plant-loving Dominique Fils-Aimé at her Montreal apartment to talk about her fourth album, Our Roots Run Deep, an album themed around greenness and rebirth – and the first in a new trilogy.

For his latest single, ‘We Are Here’, Michael Waugh turns to the power of storytelling, delivering an anthemic, rousing folk song that praises heroes, all of whom are gay pioneers…it is a call to action: we won’t be silent anymore!