Alex Gallacher

Josienne Clarke announces her new album Onliness (songs of solitude & singularity) and shares the music video for The Tangled Tree, one of her earliest compositions and also our Song of the Day.

Featuring Niamh Dunne, Karan Casey shares her latest album single ‘Sister I Am Here For You’, a song which celebrates the “profound beauty found in female friendship and camaraderie”.

Billy Bragg, Oysterband, Breabach, Talisk, Jiggy, N’Faly Kouyaté, Daphne’s Flight, Spiers & Boden, and Leveret are among the first names announced for Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Lady Nade with a beautiful cover of Gillian Welch’s ‘Everything is Free’. We chat to her about the song and the message she wants to put across, one of ‘fair pay and fair play’.

Angeline Morrison’s The Sorrow Songs, voted No 1 in our Top 100 Folk Albums of 2022, is released on Vinyl today via Topic Records. Don’t miss her upcoming solo dates including Celtic Connections this month.

Our Song of the Day comes from Hack-Poets Guild (Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann) with Ten Tongues. Watch the accompanying animated video by Marry Waterson.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana makes a double appearance at Celtic Connections this month. To celebrate, watch the premiere of her new video for ‘Comed 1858’, taken from her latest album Edyf.

Lisa O’Neill has shared a new track and accompanying video for ‘Silver Seed’, taken from her new album ‘All of This Is Chance’, out February 10th, 2023. An entrancing Lisa O’Neill at her very best.

Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts has shared his latest single, ‘Eppie Morrie’, taken from his forthcoming new album Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional folk songs.

Emma Tricca has signed to Bella Union and will release her fourth album ‘Aspirin Sun’ on 7th April. To celebrate the news, she has shared a colourful and captivating video for the first single, “King Blixa”, directed by Francesco Cabras.

Our Song of the Day comes from Mary Elizabeth Remington with her new single ‘Dresser Hill’, taken from her upcoming album In Embudo featuring Adrianne Lenker and James Krivchenia of Big Thief and Mat Davidson (Twain).

Featuring music from John McCusker, Elly Lucas, Doug Paisley, Rozi Plain, Fantastic Negrito, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra, Duncan Chisholm, Burnt Paw, Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, Úna Monaghan, Kate Dineen, Molly O’Mahony and more.