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Alex Gallacher

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.

Watch the video for Andy Skellam’s new single ‘Bluebird’ – it ranks among his best, and the chorus is inspired by Charles Bukowski’s poem of the same name. The video, filmed in Bristol, was directed by Daisy Moseley, who perfectly captures the song’s mood.

Birmingham-based singer/songwriter Katherine Priddy announces her sophomore album, The Pendulum Swing, and shares her first single, ‘First House on the Left’…It might just be another terraced cottage to passersby, but to those who’ve called it home, it’s everything.

Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, the stunning new single from Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana who is performing at Other Voices Cardigan Festival this weekend.

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