Watch Tabhair Dom Do Lámh, the superb new single from Irish/English singer and multi-instrumentalist Lewis Barfoot, her first release since her debut album Glenaphuca earlier this year. Don’t miss her upcoming tour in November.
Toby Hay puts down his guitar and takes to the harp for two beautiful improvised pieces recorded at his home in mid-Wales with David Ian Roberts on guitar. These two journey-like pieces will transport the listener. This is music you will constantly return to.
Watch Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan performing ‘The Parting Glass’, taken from their new album ‘Still As Your Sleeping’. The recording of this track came about following a request from Margaret Atwood. Watch and read more about it here.
On September 5th, a plaque was unveiled at 160 Park Avenue in Hull to mark the former home of the renowned folk singer, Lal Waterson. Listen to Lal, Norma & Marry Waterson & Eliza Carthy performing John Ball from 1988.
Featuring music that spans her vibrant 24-year career, Sarah McQuaid’s ‘The St Buryan Sessions’ is a wonderful, expressive and intimate live album from a consummate performer.
Afterlight is indisputably one of her very best. The former Thea Gilmore can justifiably stand back and be proud of the new woman, the new artist she has become. Long may the Afterlight shine.
Our Song of the Day comes from Glasgow-based singer songwriter Rhona Macfarlane. Watch the accompanying video to her new single ‘No Rain’, a poignant song capturing the passing of time and the power and depth of family relationships.
Salt House have announced the release of a new EP titled ‘Working for Zeus’ on which they are joined by a number of guest musicians. Listen to their lead track ‘Under the Same Moon’.
Watch the accompanying short film to Erland Cooper’s latest project ‘Never Pass Into Nothingness’, the title of which comes from the first stanza of John Keats’ poem Endymion.
Nomadic alt-folk duo Good Habits are finally returning home to the UK after making such a big impression in New Zealand. Watch them covering a Mancunian classic as you’ve never heard before – She Bangs The Drums by The Stone Roses
After last year’s cancelled tour dates, Welsh band Mabon announce dates for their farewell tour as their band members embark on “new projects for some…and new chapters for others.”
A dark and atmospheric experience, ‘IRIS’ elevates the sound of Reb Fountain’s previous record and explores some abstract yet highly relatable concepts. It’s an incredibly focused, deep, and powerful record that won’t be easily forgotten.
