An Tinne (The Chain) is a project led by SEALL, and Skye Gaelic singer Anne Martin linking a collection of songs, stories and objects across the centuries between Scotland and Australia.

The organisers of Gate to Southwell have confirmed that the 15th festival will now take place from July 14th to 17th 2022. Names include Peat & Diesel, Dervish, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Chris While and Julie Mathews, Greg Russell and Danny Pedlar and more.

As far as tribute albums go, they don’t come much better than this. Nancy Kerr’s ‘The Poor Shall Wear the Crown‘ is a heartfelt and tremendous album that shines a bright light on the poetic work of Leon Rosselson.

Aistear, the debut album from Irish harpist and concertina player Aisling Lyons, is full of music that has a joy and peace about it, and its great strength lies in that it is gentle on the soul.

Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis has released a digital EP featuring songs she composed to accompany the Source To Sea podcast series in which Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travel the length of three major Scottish rivers (The River Dee, River Tay and River Clyde).

Featuring Clelia Vega with James P Honey, Big Thief, The Baird Sisters, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nathan Bowles, Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles, Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang, Roseanne Reid, Doug Tielli, Hiss Golden Messenger, Clogs, Sally Anne Morgan, Jouis, Turner Cody.

Sam Sweeney announces ‘Solo’, the first in a series of EPs that highlight the band members who performed on his acclaimed album ‘Unearth Repeat’. Listen to opening track “Untitled Waltz #1 / Tweedside”.

During the summer of 2021, Northern collective ‘Harp and a Monkey’ worked on a commission to capture an aural representation of everyday life for inhabitants of the Peak District in Derbyshire. Watch the accompanying video ‘Birdsong and Bells: The Peak Sound Project’.

Watch the video for ‘Meeting Is Over’, the new single from Moira Smiley featuring Piers Faccini and Seamus Egan – a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. The perfect end-of-year song.

Featuring C Joynes, Erlend Apneseth & Margit Myhr, The Little Unsaid, Isaac Birituro and The Rail Abandon, Jacqui Alpine, Myriam Gendron, Sarah Louise, Elkhorn, Charlie Parr, Circuit Des Yeux, Ben LaMar Gay, Six Organs Of Admittance, Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Lonnie Holley, Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo.

Bryan Bolea catches Allison Russell and her band, featuring Sistastrings (Chauntee Ross and Monique Ross), Larissa Maestro and Mandy Fer at the Listening Room in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Bob Fish shares his Top 10 Albums of 2021 including Trippers & Askers, Heisk, Crys Matthews, Spencer Cullum, Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird, The Weather Station, Devin Hoff, Fruit Bats and Steve Gunn.