Lochaber based Gaelic Supergroup Dàimh have been busy…If you are looking to improve your session skills, learn some tunes and a Gaelic song then check out School of Dàimh : Home Schoolin’ via Youtube.

Martin Simpson is back on the road with a very long list of tour dates. This year also marks the 20th Anniversary of Martin’s album “The Bramble Briar”, an English folk gem if ever there was one. He has also written a new song for Hen Harrier Day titled ‘Sky Dancer’.

This October sees the release of Grace Petrie’s new album Connectivity, watch her euphoric new video for Storm to Weather, “a message of hope and solidarity from the midst of chaos and separation.”

The Magic Lantern releases his new single “Blades of Grass” today. Watch the accompanying video by musician Leena Culhane which “centres around our everyday acts of finding joy in desperate times and the memories we carry with us wherever we go.”

Aidan O’Rourke’s Iorram is a truly magical listening experience, one that, for all its outward quietness, is bursting with ideas…Even without the context of the film it accompanies, this masterful document has a vividness that is almost visual in its own right.

Recorded and produced alone, Maarja Nuut’s ‘Hinged’, is an album of exploratory playfulness, enshrined in a strong original approach that’s hard to relate or compare to others. In part, this is where her strength lies…and not knowing where she will take her music next adds to that attraction.

The Teesside Troubadour Vin Garbutt who passed away in 2017 at the age of 69, is to have his autobiography published. Written in the years before his death, “this is Vin’s touching, funny and life-affirming story in his own words”. The book is available to pre-order now.

The Harbottle & Jonas Trio, featuring David Harbottle, Freya Jonas and Annie Baylis, join forces with Phil Beer for a great cover of The Grateful Dead’s ‘Black Muddy River’.

Today marks the release of Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh’s new album Tá Go Maith. Watch him performing the first single ‘Tá’n t’Ádh Liom’ alongside Myles O’Reilly who also produced the album.

Watch Craig Fortnam, composer for North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison, performing ‘German Ocean’ live. A quirkily brilliant single that invites repeated plays; taken from his first solo album ‘Ark’.

Folk duo Ye Vagabonds have been planning a very ambitious and novel trip for over a year now, and soon they will take to the inland waterways of Ireland for over a month for their ‘All Boats Rise’ tour.

David Ferguson, a Grammy Award-winning recording engineer who has collaborated with the likes of Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Sturgill Simpson, releases his debut album next month. Watch him performing “Hard Times Come Again No More,” accompanied by Sierra Hull. This really is something else, a sure winner.