Our Song of the Day comes from O Deer, the musical project of Oisín Walsh-Peelo. Watch the accompanying video to Waterside, recorded live in the Cottage at Camus Farm, West Cork.

The music of Calexico’s El Mirador creates an ever-changing multicultural kaleidoscope of the American southwest. Along the way, you discover that while the sounds may seem foreign, they are also intoxicating.

Controlled Burning is a mind-bender of an album featuring duets from guitarist Eli Winter and keyboard and synthesizer artist Jordan Reyes – unashamedly bonkers in places and calm and sedate in others.

Made by band member Peter Timmins, The Cowboy Junkies reveal their new video for ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’, one of their Neil Young covers taken from their new album ‘Songs Of The Recollection’.

Joan Shelley will release The Spur, her first new album in 3 years, featuring contributions from Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington, Bill Callahan and Meg Baird. Watch the accompanying video for the title track, directed by The Forman Brothers.

Leigh Folk Festival (23-26 June 2022) have made their first lineup announcement. We preview some of our favourites from the list so far, including: Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex, Eliza Carthy, Simon Finn, Burd Ellen, Gwenifer Raymond, MG Boulter, Serious Sam Barrett and more.

Ahead of their May tour, watch Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan performing ‘Come Away In’ live. The edit is taken from their ‘Live to Your Living Room’ live stream that was recorded at Castlesound Studio.

Dana Gavanski returns this month with her new album ‘When It Comes’. Watch the accompanying video for ‘I Kiss The Night’, “…an ode to the night, learning to lean in to its magic, and the spookiness of solitude in a winter storm.”

VanWyck’s ‘The Epic Tale Of the Stranded Man’ is a major work that clearly, like the ancient epics on which it draws, serves as a cautionary mirror to society, it’s a stunning creation and surely, at some point, demands a dramatic multi-media staging.

The world’s biggest ceilidh, Hoolie in the Hydro, takes place at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday 17th December with a lineup that includes Dougie Maclean, Mànran, Sharon Shannon Band, Skerryvore and Trail West.

Following his bittersweet slacker debut novel ‘Three Craws’, Jame Yorkston has announced his second: The Book of the Gaels, described by musician and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker as ‘An unsentimental and unflinching miracle of remembrance’.

Shifting away from his previous unique stripped-back style, Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs features a surprisingly wide variety of instruments and some impressively alluring multi-layered arrangements. He carries these folk songs on into the current time, giving them new life and extending their long history.