Abby Posner’s ‘Kisbee Ring’ is a gently beguiling album about overcoming trials and tribulations on which her lyrics percolate around themes of depression, racial oppression, healing and rescue.
Janet Batch’s day job is a landscape gardener; as a singer-songwriter she’s a veritable country Capability Brown as attests on her second album ‘You Be The Wolf’.
Christy Moore has today shared a further single, Johnny Boy, from his new studio album, Flying into Mystery. The song is a Gary Moore cover, originally written as a tribute to Thin Lizzy bandmate, Phil Lynott.
Recently outrage has erupted in Dublin. The Cobblestone, a pub celebrated world-wide for its traditional Irish music is proposed to be, in part, demolished in favour of erecting a multi-storey hotel.
Watch Martin Carthy in concert for the Library of Congress and watch a two part interview covering his early years, Dave Swarbrick, Steeleye Span, Norma Waterson, Lal and Mike Waterson, the making of Bright Phoebus, Eliza Carthy, The Watersons, forming Waterson:Carthy and more.
Throughout Sleeping Spirals, the debut album from Hannah James and Toby Kuhn, distinct threads of travel, place and self-discovery come together to form a complex but unified whole. It is a journey you will want to take again and again.
Widely regarded as the premier seasonal show, The Albion Christmas Band ft. Simon Nicol, Kellie While, Simon Care and Ashley Hutchings takes to the road once again in December 2021 for their 21st Anniversary Greatest Hits Tour.
Watch Mdou Moctar: Live at the Niger River – filmed at dawn beside a campfire and a pot of Tuareg tea, the set captures stripped-down generator-powered performances of tracks from their new album Afrique Victime.
We chat to Eliza Marshall, Catrin Finch, Dónal Rogers and Jackie Shave, members of Freedom to Roam, about their album The Rhythms of Migration which will be launched next month at Cecil Sharp House followed by a UK Spring tour.
Chris Wood is out on tour this month and early December. We look back at a past gig to highlight why you don’t want to miss this tour, learn about his sofa and share a lockdown session from his garden.
The RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award nominees are proof enough that Ireland’s folk music scene is vibrantly alive and well. Read our preview feat. John Francis Flynn, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O’Brien, Dani Larkin, Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside and lots more.
