The wonderfully talented Rachel Newton provides our Song of the Day via her new video for Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad – supported by a hugely talented band as well. It’s so good we gave you a double helping!
Sidmouth FolkWeek kicks off this week. Check out some of the highlights, listen to our Spotify playlist and have a read through past festival memories from the likes of Kathryn Tickell, Andy Cutting and more.
A beautiful father and daughter album from Amanda Palmer and father Jack Palmer. Songs chosen by both of them from John Grant’s Glacier to Richard Thompson’s classic 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
Fegan’s passion and knowledge of Irish traditional music played by members of the Irish Travelling community is remarkable. This is a captivating documentary, through interviews and supported archive footage he has brought to life the stuff of legend.
Following on from the razor sharp polemics of ‘The City Nowadays’, L.A. Salami releases his new Double-A side single, ‘I Wear This Because Life Is War’ / ‘Day To Day’. Listen now.
Calais Field Music is a project I recently came across which was set up by Isolda Heavey to help the refugees in the ‘Jungle’ camp at Calais. Five albums have been released to date featuring field recordings of different musicians from the camp. Solidarity not charity.
This week Folk Radio UK heads to WOMAD 2016 – 90 Artists from 50 Countries will be performing at this year’s festival so we are going to be thoroughly spoilt for choice, not just with the music but also the art, dance, discussion, activity, food and drink from fifty nations spanning six continents.
Yorkston Thorne Khan head out on a tour of Ireland in August with support from Seamus Fogarty and they also play this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Watch their recent performance of Sufi Song at the Tolbooth in Stirling.
Justen Cimino is a Florida based guitarist who has been concentrating on producing instrumental music since around 2009. Dragon Tree is his third solo album and 1381 Records, his own label.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
We head back to the Embankment, Tallaght, Co.Dublin 1976 for today’s Song of the Day, a great horse-racing classic – ‘Plains of Kildare’. It’s performed by Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.
This week’s mix features a heap of new music from the likes of Brigid Mae Power, Martin Green (ft. Adam Holmes), Seth Lakeman And Wildwood Kin, Ruth Keggin, Aon Teanga, Georgia Ruth, Billy Bragg And Joe Henry and many more.
