Following his highly acclaimed debut album and upcoming UK tour announcement, watch Josh Okeefe performing the traditional ballad “I’m a Man You Don’t Meet Every Day”. The song has been covered by the likes of Archie Fisher, The Pogues, The Dubliners and Jeannie Robertson.
Shawna Caspi’s “Hurricane Coming” is a sincere offering, bursting with sentiments and heart-on-sleeve emotions that will resonate with many. It’s her most personal set of songs and best album to date.
Cecil Sharp House are once again looking forward to hosting music-loving audiences in a packed Autumn/winter season including John McCusker, Thea Gilmore, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine, Kitty MacFarlane, Leveret, Sam Sweeney, The Rheingans Sisters, Spiers & Boden, LAU and lots more.
On Josienne Clarke’s ‘A Small Unknowable Thing’, the songs are so direct, showing an immediacy born of frustration and inspiration. Unshackled creative freedom screams out of every song…ripe with raw artistic expression combined with music of surefire melodic and dramatic purpose.
Celebrated Scottish Gael Mary Ann Kennedy is following in the footsteps of St Columba, embarking on an epic journey of musical discovery as part of a landmark collaboration with Scotland’s singing festival, St Andrews Voices.
A far cry from the often politically charged tub-thumping anthems of his day job with Merry Hell, Neil McCartney’s “Memoirs From A Crooked Road” gently grows on you the more you hear it, laying down a carbon footprint that’s well worth walking in.
Belfast International Arts Festival returns from 6 October to 7 November with headliners Glen Hansard and The Great Irish Songbook, featuring legendary Irish folk group Dervish, alongside Brian Kennedy, Cara Dillon, Karen Matheson, Eddi Reader and Belfast’s own Open Arts Community Choir.
Adam Holmes has long been one of the country’s most talented and impressive vocalists, with Dreamweaver he takes that step further to being one of the finest songwriters in the UK today. Dreamweaver is a truly heart-warming listen and a formidably affecting and potent release.
Watch the full concert that Pentangle recorded for Belgian TV in 1972, prior to the release of Solomon’s Seal, featuring the original lineup of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.
Featuring: John Francis Flynn (our Artist of the Month), Martin A. Egan, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, The Deadlians, Stick in the Wheel, Dick Gaughan, Ye Vagabonds, Sweeny’s Men, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Landless and more.
Taking turns both tender and turbulent, John Francis Flynn’s “I Would Not Live Always” is bracing, unpredictable and without a doubt one of the most deeply affecting folk debuts of recent years.
