Our Tune of the Day comes from Canadian duo Pierre Schryer & Adam Dobres who recently released their new album Mandorla. They are a real tour de force we could seriously listen to them all day.
The Little Unsaid release their Music / Nature EP on November 8th including five new unreleased songs recorded during the Atomise sessions. Watch the accompanying video for Nature.
Our Tune of the Day comes from Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett’s new self-titled album. Listen to ‘All Good Things’, a tune inspired by the Baltimore Fiddle Fair, where Caoimhín was musician-in-residence one year.
Cardiff’s Ocean Arts will play host to the Fiddle Festival of Wales tomorrow. The festival features free fiddle workshops and sessions, the Welsh Celtic Fiddle Competition, and an Evening Concert featuring Vrï, Isembard’s Wheel and more.
Robb Johnson, along with a supporting cast, is to bring his monumental album “Ordinary Giants’ to East London which chronicles events from the 1920s to 2000s, highlighting the impact of the war years and the creation of the NHS. Not to be missed.
Few artists can so effectively use the strangeness of the old to pin down the strangeness of the new. The Fiery Margin achieves this with the vigour and surefootedness of an artist fully engaged with the world and yet never fully at peace with it.
Taken from their forthcoming EP “Eta Carinae” released on October 11th 2019, Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have shared a video for their brilliant first single “Swinging Like a Brick”. They are on tour in October.
Tomorrow sees the release of NOA, the new album from Chicago based singer-songwriter Taylor Rogers. Listen in the full to the album and read a track-by-track in Taylor’s own words.
With ‘Battlefield Dance Floor’, Show of Hands have put together one of the most cohesive, diverse and persuasive sets of their entire career and one of the most consistently adventurous collections in their catalogue.
Watch Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke performing ‘Dirty Mattresses’ in the doorway of Brían Mac Gloinn (Ye Vagabonds) home in Dublin in the company of woodcarver Feargus De Brún and Taylor the dog.
“Rising Up – Peterloo 2019” is a newly commissioned theatre and folk music project combining compelling and original narrative and song and involving Debs Newbold, Sean Cooney, Sam Carter, Lucy Farrell, Jim Molyneux and more.