Watch the new video from Chicago’s Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden/Funeral Bonsai Wedding) for his new single, ‘A World Without You A World Without You’, an achingly soulful number to be released on 21 January.

Since they made their album debut back in 2010, Police Dog Hogan have been building a reputation as one of the country’s finest live bands and folk-country acts. Overground is their finest hour yet.

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Our latest Folk Show delivers the best in Folk and Roots Music featuring Salt House, Moira Smiley & Piers Faccini, Julie Fowlis, Megan Henderson, Police Dog Hogan, Aoife O’Donovan, Talisk, Bruce MacGregor, Rakish, Nancy Kerr, Sam Sweeney, Brìghde Chaimbeul and more.

Taken from her ‘Like Animals’ album (2020), watch the new video from Charlie Dore for ‘Ordinary Names’…names that have fallen out of fashion and heydays of the past.

Megan Henderson, a member of the award-winning Scottish folk group Breabach, will release her long-awaited solo-debut Pilgrim Souls on 21 January 2022. Listen to her first single, The Dawn Chorus.

Tompkins Square’s release of Bola Sete’s live shows at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle is an indulgent and immensely satisfying collector’s piece, packed with music and literature, including interviews with Carlos Santana and Anne Sete, plus essays by John Fahey among others.

Watch the latest video from Valtos (Skye Natives Daniel Docherty and Martyn MacDonald) for their remix of Peatbog Faeries ‘Marx Terrace’, on which they add their own twist and ‘Valtos flair’. It features some great clips from their sold-out show at SWG3, Glasgow.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jake Xerxes Fussell with “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” the fourth and final single off taken from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st on Paradise of Bachelors.

Celtic Connections have confirmed that a number of shows and elements within the 2022 programme can no longer go ahead due to the uncertainty and disruption caused by the Omicron variant.

Paring things down to their essence, what Michael Hurley does on Time of the Foxgloves is establish that the truth is where you find it. Hurley’s brand of truth should never go out of fashion; it is timeless.

Taken from their fifth studio album Overland (out on 14th January), watch the superb new animated video from UK Americana band Police Dog Hogan for ‘Here Comes Crow’. Their best yet.