Broadside Hacks release new single and video, a re-imagining of ‘The Burning of Auchindoun’, featuring Dargah Lynch of Lankum and Edinburgh-based artist Rosa Zajac. Taken from “Songs Without Authors Vol.1”, to be released in September 2021.

Marisa Anderson & William Tyler deliver a diverse and shifting set of songs, using repetition, space, peace and alarm. Lost Futures is a finely composed and beautifully performed album from these two highly creative players.

Scotland’s accordion virtuoso Gary Innes releases a new single “The Hurling Man” to celebrate Ireland’s ancient and native sport Hurling featuring Don Stiffe, Sharon Shannon plus a whole host of other terrific musicians.

Tré Burt’s You, Yeah, You is characterised by an honest and compassionate set of tales, rich with stories of humanity, its beauty and faults, of Burt’s American homeland; a philosopher in jeans and a persuasive new presence on the American folk scene.

When James McMurtry released his debut back in 1989, he was hailed as a blazing new talent with the ability to capture a wealth of meaning and emotion in just a few words. Thirty-two years later, he’s burning brighter and fiercer than ever.

Life and the Land is a magnificent debut. Ben Walker and Kirsty Merryn have set the bar high by delivering a masterclass in how to successfully place old jewels in new settings.

Following his highly acclaimed 2019 album ‘Where the White Roses Grow’, Yorkshire’s Serious Sam Barrett returns next month with an album of British Folk songs titled ‘The Seeds of Love’. Watch his new video for The Waggoner, a Tyneside ballad of the Great Northern Coalfield.

Ye Vagabonds share their first weekly postcard from their inland waterway tour of Ireland. “Everyone we met along the way, auld lads driving tractors, cyclists, couples with prams, all greeted us with smiles and waves. They all move faster than us too.”

David Weir catches up with John Francis Flynn, also our Artist of the Month, to chat about the inspiration behind and making of his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’. “…one of the most deeply affecting folk debuts of recent years.”

Samana is the work of Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett. A project that is both poetry, music, striking photography and fine art. Watch their live recording of Begin Again, a song about the absence of a love through an unforeseen death. A stunning and spellbinding performance.

Sincerely honest, lacking in pretension or hyperbole, qualities it seems that are sadly lacking in many quarters today, Steve Jinski’s Hope Street is an album that does exactly what it says on the tin. It is as good a salve and riposte to the seemingly all-pervasive negativity currently around as you could wish for.

Cots, the new project from Steph Yates, represents a more personal style for the Montreal-based artist and ‘Disturbing Body’, is her most intimate and emotionally complex work to date, that invites the listener to impart their own experiences onto its dream-like vocals and velvety instrumentals.