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Listen to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Little Arrow’s debut 2011 album ‘Music, Masks & Poems’, released as a beautiful tribute to frontman, William Hughes, who was sadly lost to cancer in December 2018.

‘Dignity’ – a Livestream celebration of 80 years of Bob Dylan live from Dublin (Monday 24 May) is to feature Lisa Hannigan, Cinder Well, FeliSpeaks, Peter Broderick, Brigid Mae Power, Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill and more.

Following the recent release of her debut EP, Atlaness, Vicky Gray has released a music video for the lead track, Teif on da Lum…a beautiful collaboration with Shetland film-maker, JJ Jamieson.

The first-ever digital edition of Edinburgh Tradfest was a great success, reaching traditional music fans in America and Australia, as well as across Scotland and the UK.

While David John Morris’s lyrics have always flowed from a deeply spiritual place, they have never sounded quite like those on ‘Monastic Love Songs’…they stir with transformative promise with the constitution of his inner country, as Cohen would say, vividly evoking his natural surroundings.

Johanna Samuels’ ‘Excelsior!’ really comes into its own through the honesty with which she discusses isolation and vulnerability. While musically, she’s not attempting to break new ground she may help accomplish something far greater: a kinder world with more compassionate songwriting.

Featuring TRÚ, Clare Sands, Dorothea Paas, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Johanna Samuels, Bryan Away, Marina Allen, Damien Jurado, David John Morris, Elephant Micah, Dana Sipos, Joanna Newsom.

In Mental Health Awareness Week, Richard Hollingham considers the role music plays in his own mental health and how it can help others.

TRÚ are no ordinary folk band, and No Fixed Abode no ordinary album. Their music is dusted with a hint of magic and while it has all the energy befitting a first offering, it bears the stamp of quality usually reserved for seasoned artists.

Johanna Samuels’ debut album Excelsior! is out digitally today on Basin Rock. Arguably leaving the best to last, she’s sharing the music video for album opener “Sonny”.

Taken from Joshua Burnell’s forthcoming new EP Storm Cogs, watch the video for ‘Shelagh’s Song’, inspired by the life of Scottish singer-songwriter Shelagh McDonald, the Seventies folk singer who went missing for 30 years.

Martha Wainwright has announced her new album “Love Will Be Reborn”, her first release since 2016’s ‘Goodnight City’. Set for release on August 20th and followed by a UK Tour, she paves the way with a stunning title track single.

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