For listeners unacquainted with Quebecois folk music they have created an eloquent document of a musical form that is very much alive, but just as importantly they have put down a feisty, foot-stomping collection of unusual and highly rewarding tunes.
Jaywalkers return with ‘Time to Save the World’. The musicianship is truly tasty: both deft and impeccable but never soulless while their togetherness and interplay is mesmerising and attention-grabbing…
Strike the Match is an excellent new release from the Boston, MA-based band Billy Wylder. The band blends a fresh indie-folk sound with compelling lyrics to create a joyful listening experience.
Four years on from her Chasing Ghosts debut, the Alabama-born multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sylvia Rose Novak returns with a self-produced album that welds the personal and the political.
Orit Shimoni is an excellent teller of tales who should be more widely recognised as she roves around baring her heart. Her latest offering is a nod to her nomadic life.
Watch the accompanying animated video by Cat Bruce for Breabach’s Birds of Passage, the lead single from their highly anticipated 6th studio album, Frenzy of the Meeting. The video captures the very essence of the song and music perfectly.
Hands Up for Trad have opened nominations for this year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Find out the 25 albums nominated for the Trad Album of the Year, many of which have featured on Folk Radio UK. Get voting.
Freumhan Falaichte is a breathtakingly accomplished album with an incredible line-up including Julie Fowlis, Rosa Cedron, Fraser Fifield, Ewan MacPherson, Natalie Haas and Donald Hay. It’s also an enormously significant album in the Scottish folk scene and for Gaelic music.
After becoming utterly entranced by the CD release of Northern Flyway, it was abundantly clear that the full live production the CD was based on was going to be something special…this multi-dimensional exploration of birdsong, ecology, and folklore casts an even stronger spell.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Laws of Motion’, the title track of Karine Polwart’s new album which drops this month on 19th October via Hudson Records and is supported by a UK Tour Including London Cadogan Hall on October 17.
Hummingbird is Smith’s most impressive album yet. A work of mature and subtle beauty, celebrating songs that are still being sang and ones that will carry on being sang; this album should be heard by everyone.
We talk to Declan O’Rourke about his album Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine which he spent 15 years researching and developing. It will be performed live with a full band in aid of Action Against Hunger in Manchester next month.
