KLOF

Today marks the release of Go Get Gone, the debut album from the tenacious duo Worry Dolls. They take us track-by-track through their new album which features some great songwriting collaborations backed by some stunning playing from Wild Ponies.

This March sees the release of Neil McSweeney’s fourth album, A Coat Worth Wearing. Featuring a line-up of faces well-known to the folk world, the release also marks a development in his sound and approach. Watch him performing ‘Land of Cockaigne’ live.

Peter Broderick teams up with musical partner David Allred for new album Find the Ways and share new music video in which they sing unaccompanied but supported by some familiar sign carriers including BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs.

Canadian Juno award-winning songwriter Amelia Curran has announced the release of her new album Watershed in the UK on April 21st through Six Shooter Records. She recently revealed a stop-motion video for her first single Gravity.

Listen in full to ‘Standing at the Precipice,’ the debut album from Folk and Americana duo Almond&Olive – Natalie Alms and Ollie Davidson.

Barbara Dickson announces UK-wide concert tour from Yeovil to Perth and, in support of the tour, releases ‘Five Songs’ EP, a cross section of her “favourites of now” including the traditional, an Incredible String Band cover and an original.

Our Song of the Day is ‘I Remember You,’ the first single to be taken from singer-songwriter Jason McNiff’s forthcoming double CD retrospective anthology. Lilting and upbeat, the song showcases McNiff’s simple-yet-powerful acoustic guitar work partnered with an enticing folk-pop melody that makes it an instant classic.

Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum shares ‘Real Death,’ a heartbreaking song from his forthcoming album A Crow Looked at Me which was written following the loss of Geneviève Castrée, his wife and mother of their child.

Fairport Convention has announced names for next year’s 37th Cropredy Convention including Petula Clark, Dougie MacLean, Richard Thompson, Show of Hands, Gigspanner Big Band, Feast of Fiddles as well as a triple bill of performances from ‘early years’ former members of Fairport to celebrate their Golden Anniversary.

We have the pleasure in premiering the new video for The Silver Fox, the new single from Gnoss, a return to what’s at the centre of Gnoss’ sound: tight tune-playing bursting with character. Don’t miss their free set tomorrow at Celtic Connections.

Watch Zurich-based folk/pop songstress Ursina’s new music video for ‘Question Untold,’ her latest single taken from her debut album ‘You Have My Heart’, out on 27th January via Radicalis.

The preliminary line-up for Orkney Folk Festival 2017 is announced including: Eddi Reader, Kris Drever, The East Pointers, Jeffrey Foucault, Blazin’ Fiddles, Flook, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, The Young’uns and many more.