Lorcán Mac Mathúna’s latest album, Visionaries 1916, which is due to be released in October, honours the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising through a creative musical use of their words.
Saturday 3rd September sees the return of the London Folk Festival to Camden’s Cecil Sharp House featuring Faustus, Stick In The Wheel, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater, Long Lankin and more.
Much like the album’s title the songs on Emily Jane White’s latest offering share a special musical and dramatic unity, whose intimacy is sometimes quite overpowering in spite of its pervasive sense of distance and shadowy remove.
Instar finds Nancy Kerr at the height of her creative powers. It’s vital, visceral and urgent – balm for our woes, hope for our future: an essential companion for these turbulent times.
Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood collaborate on ‘Wings’ EP which, as well as original and traditional material, includes covers of Lau’s ‘Ghosts’ and New Order’s ‘Love Vigilantes’. Don’t miss their London live debut on 25th August.
Our Song of the Day comes from the Dublin-based Irish Traditional trio The Morning Tree. They perform a beautiful version of The Holland Handkerchief – a tale of love beyond the grave.
Our Song of the Day comes via a video of Lau and Anais Mitchell performing ‘Dyin’ Day’ which featured on her 2012 album ‘Young Man in America’, an album inspired by the recession and the uncertainty that it brought with it.
A tune of the day from one of the shining lights of the Dublin music scene – Skipper’s Alley. Watch them performing ‘Why She Couldn’t Drink Her Tea’ in The Parlour Bar of Whelan’s.
The Fruited Thorn is a moving and incredibly impressive celebration of traditional song. It succeeds in combining Kaela’s love of experimentation with her love of traditional song, a truly mesmerising album.
We have the pleasure of exclusively revealing a further track from Welsh singer-songwriter SERA. Your Joy features on her forthcoming self-released album ‘Little Girl’.
John Paul White’s ‘Beulah’ is a deeply personal album that is both ambitious and revealing. “Upon emerging, it feels like you’ve been on a journey alongside the artist, the telltale sign of a remarkable record.”
