Tim O’Brien announces the release of new studio album ‘Pompadour’, his first solo album in four years which will be launched with a UK Tour including Celtic Connections.
Folk singer, musician and dancer Hannah James is about to tour her new innovative and inspiring solo show JigDoll. She took some time out before heading on the road to tell us about JigDoll, the inspiration behind it and some of the challenges she has faced.
Folk singer songwriter Maz O’Connor announces new album ‘The Longing Kind’, her first album of entirely original songs. Listen to the premiere of the final track ‘When the Whisky Runs Dry’.
Scottish Gaelic Supergroup Dàimh announce new album ‘The Hebridean Sessions’ recorded across the Islands of Mull, Skye and South Uist… and they have a new member: Ellen MacDonald. Watch her video introduction here.
There are few books I can name that actually make such an impression as to change the way I think about music but Josh Rosenthal’s ‘The Record Store of the Mind’ is one. Do yourself a favour and buy it!
The Frisbys are fronted by twins Helen and Nicola Frisby who have been singing and playing music together since they were old enough to speak. It shows, take a listen to ‘Give in to the Dark’ from their new double A-side single.
Our Song of the Day comes from Scottish singer/songwriter Amy Duncan, taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Undercurrents’ due for release in February 2016.
We have a video premiere today from Kelly Oliver for ‘Miles To Tralee’, her new single, inspired by her Grandmother’s story of moving from Ireland to London after the war in order to find work. Watch it here.
The ability to turn a stream of mundane details into something inexplicably heartbreaking, with little but a softly strummed guitar as an accompaniment. This is Hayman’s gift – the ability to elevate the quotidian to heights that are almost sacred.
Glen Hansard’s second solo album finds him in reflective mood, the songs veined with themes of grace under pressure and of support and comfort for the lost.
Next month sees the fourth Button Boxes and Moothies festival of Free Reed Instruments at the University of Aberdeen featuring a host of artists including John Spiers, Alistair Anderson, Will Pound, Mary MacNamara and more.
