A bespoke tartan carpet transformed Glasgow’s Buchanan Street today, Wednesday 16th May, to unveil the headliners of this year’s Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival and The World Pipe Band Championships, which both return to the city 13 – 19 August 2018.
The Americana Music Association have announced the nominees for its 17th annual Honors & Awards including John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Jason Isbell, I’m with Her, Courtney Marie Andrews, Molly Tuttle and more.
Watch Steve Dawson performing Bugscuffle as he showcases his unique tuning and voice on the Weissenborn lap guitar. Taken from his new album Lucky Hand that represents a high point of more than two decades of musical searching.
Arrow is an album of maturity, self-realisation and integrity. It is the album Ciara O’Neill had to make and without any ulterior motive or compromise. Most of all though, it is so musical! Ciara and her songs carry everything with such conviction, it makes her almost transparent.
Joy’s Reflection is Sorrow, the new album from Sharron Kraus is due for release on June 21st via Sunstone Records – a record that traverses the spiritual and emotional rhizomes of the human condition, soaring angelically on Sharron’s tapestry woven from traditional and experimental folk music.
Our Song of the Day is delivered by the rich baritone voice of Melbourne-based singer songwriter Ryan Downey accompanied by Zoë Randell for 1+1 from his debut album Running.
Tunng share video for lead single ‘ABOP’ which brings the Moog right to your face, with a heavily swung frazzled 808 pigeon beat that builds into a magical folk-pop feast. Watch the animated video by Kijek / Adamski.
Lera Lynn will release her new duets album Plays Well With Others on June 22nd featuring Peter Bradley Adams, John Paul White, Dylan LeBlanc, Andrew Combs, Rodney Crowell, Shovels & Rope, JD McPherson and Nicole Atkins. Watch her performing with John Paul White.
“as tiny as the venue and invited audience were, if the significance of the event we’d gathered to witness was mirrored metaphorically, there’d have been thousands of us assembled somewhere like Madison Square Garden.”
Listen to ‘Yourself’ by Nova Scotian multi-instrumentalist/songwriter and producer Mike Legere. It’s the first single from his debut solo album Ourselves in Public which will be released on June 8, 2018.
An album best heard in those tranquil twilight or early dawn moments when the consciousness floats free and the air takes on a beguiling luminescence, it seeps over you like warm water opening your pores.
