Featuring  Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Mike McGoldrick and John Doyle, the mighty Usher’s Island announce UK dates for November 2021.

While the well-reviewed film is currently doing the rounds, The Tape album stands perfectly on its own without the need for a visual narrative, a glowing testament to Martha Tilston’s ever-burgeoning songwriting, musical and vocal brilliance.

In the final words of Dar William’s ‘I’ll Meet You Here’, she sings “Aren’t we aging well?” Like a fine wine, Williams is indeed a very special vintage that simply gets better and better with time.

On Genius Loci 1: White Peak, The Ciderhouse Rebellion have taken a step further into the unknown, with an album that marries their flawless musicianship with an ever more experimental outlook. The whole album hangs together like a story and is totally captivating.

Robin Morton, founder member of Boys of the Lough, manager, producer and ‘fifth member’ of Battlefield Band, owner of Temple Records, enthusiast, author, song-collector and promoter of folk music has died at the age of 81.

Featuring Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, Fire Draw Near, Boo Hewerdine & Jenny Sturgeon, The Little Unsaid, Mànran, Findlay Napier, John Francis Flynn, Burd Ellen, Stephanie Hladowski & C. Joynes, Alasdair Roberts, Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Elle Osborne, Brigid Power & Adrian Crowley, Hannah James & Toby Kuhn, The Ciderhouse Rebellion.

Listen to ‘Ebb & Flow’ by The Little Unsaid from his new album ‘December Songs’. “I wanted to find simple songs that captured the melancholy of this time of year, but also the cosiness, the closeness…the promise of a different kind of year ahead.”

Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan have crafted an elegantly uncomplicated listen. Dreamy yet thought-provoking at just the right moments, Still As Your Sleeping is an earnest and embracing soundtrack. Thoroughly warm-hearted and beautifully life-affirming. A genuinely gorgeous and magical duet.

Our Song of the Day is The High Priestess and the Hierophant, the new single from Burd Ellen…inspired by finding parallels between interpretation of traditional song and the art of divination.

Compiled by Lankum’s Ian Lynch, Fire Draw Near is an essential and worthy anthology for anyone with an interest in traditional music and song, it’s also a thoroughly enjoyable, irresistible and inspiring set of songs and tunes.

Taken from their debut album “The Impossible Wild”, watch the latest handmade stop-frame animation from The Last Inklings for ‘Vespers’ on which, the subtlety of the instrumentation is, as throughout the album, sublime. 

Featuring Andy Cutting, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davis, Rosie Hood and more, Locations is the result of the efforts of three Liverpool students who drove across the North of England in a red Corsa filled with audio and film equipment to record six musical combinations in six different locations.