Alex Gallacher

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew, ft. Other Lives, Lisa Hannigan, Johnny Flynn, Sam Amidon, Sparrow & the Workshop, Alasdair Roberts, Lowland Hum, Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes, Julie Doiron, The Wave Pictures, Deer Tick, Laura Veirs and more.

Ireland’s Anna Mieke shares her new single “Ornament,” a B-side off her acclaimed second album Theatre. The song, on which an entrancing soundscape creates a warm, golden atmosphere for her soothing and equally hypnotic vocals, is accompanied by a video directed by Véra Haddad.

Taken from her seventh Christmas album, Light Years, Kate Rusby shares her new single and video ‘Glorious’, inspired by an image of a lost and broken angel.

Sci-fi mountain music anyone? Taken from Bitw’s forthcoming new album ‘Rehearse’, described as his most personal offering to date, watch his new video for Old Hands – beautifully idiosyncratic psych-pop.

Taken from Undersea, the third album from Danish Singer and Songwriter Ida Wenøe, watch the video for the sublime and achingly beautiful ‘Mourning Time’, created and performed by Emilie Kilkowska Yssing, a multiple-art performer from Denmark.

Today marks the release of “Wesselbobs”, the new festive album from Yorkshire folk duo Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones. Watch their new video for “I Traced Her Little Footmarks in the Snow”, that unveils the English roots of a popular Bill Monroe bluegrass classic.

Taken from his forthcoming Duets album, singer, arranger, composer and bass player extraordinaire, Ben Nicholls shares his lead single – The Greenland Whale Fisheries, featuring Kris Drever.

Spell Songs announce ‘Gifts of Light’, a live record produced during their 2022 Spring tour at Birmingham Symphony Hall and within the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum in 2021. Taken from the album, listen to Heartwood.

Watch Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana’s live performance at Other Voices Cardigan Festival which took place over the weekend. She included her latest single ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, a traditional ballad from the English-Scottish borders.

Banjo player and singer Nora Brown and old-time fiddle player Stephanie Coleman performed a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR recently. They included a couple of tracks from their new EP, Lady of the Lake, and “Across the Rocky Mountain”/”The Old Blue Bonnet”.

We go crate digging on the latest Monday Morning Brew featuring Olla Belle Reed. J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers, Kitsos Harisiadis, Richard Williams, George Deligeorge, Washington Phillips, Joel and Odell Thompson, Henry Thomas, Etta Baker & Cora Phillips, Bookmiller Shannon and more.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Katherine Priddy, Jenny Sturgeon, Ben Nicholls & Kris Drever, Karine Polwart, Oisin Leech, Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain, Honey And The Bear, Cerys Hafana, Chris Brain, Clare Sands, Andy Skellam, Melrose Quartet, Matt McGinn and more.