Celebrating three decades of incredible music that has touched the hearts of so many, ’30: Happy Returns’ can’t be faulted. Take a bow, Kate Rusby, and keep shining your light.
Watch Christy Moore at Glasgow’s Barrowlands performing Joxer Goes To Stuttgart, a song set around the Republic of Ireland’s 1-0 victory against England at Euro ’88 when Jack Charlton became an honorary Irish man.
Commissioned by some of the regulars at Larkin’s Pub in Limerick, watch Finn Harper creating an incredible lifelike drawing of Eamon Morrissey to the music of Daoirí Farrell and Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore.
Last year, The Felice Brothers released From Dreams to Dust, which we hailed as their most ambitious, densest and experimental work to date. Next month they are touring the UK and Ireland.
The Slocan Ramblers’ ‘Up the Hill and Through the Fog’ is a finely crafted release featuring tremendous instrumentals and painstakingly constructed songs that address difficult subjects whilst maintaining a keen sense of optimism and making high energy tracks sound effortless. It’s their best yet.
Beja Power! succeeds eminently in being a powerful act of defiance, an acclamation and testament of devotion for Beja culture and a thoroughly enjoyable musical experience.
Taken from No One Seems To Notice That It’s Raining, listen to Jay Bolotin performing ‘It’s Hard to Go Down Easy’ from 1972. “LISTEN! You gotta hear this guy!” – Mickey Newbury
After three long years, the Orkney Folk Festival returns to a full-scale live event this weekend. Folk fans at home can also tune into this weekend’s festivities, with the addition of three recently announced live-streamed festival concerts.
The Magpie Arc, the cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Scotland featuring the multi-award-winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter and Martin Simpson, take flight in 2022 with selected tour dates and festivals.
Contemporary Harpist BRÍDÍN releases her new single ‘Empty Room’ in which she expresses her happiness at being alone in her own company. It’s taken from her forthcoming debut album.
Ian Siegal has created an album fitting for a man who builds his music “Stone By Stone,” Illustrating just how much effort he infuses in every note. This is a classic from a true craftsman.
