Alex Gallacher

Under the name of All The Brave Hunters, Galway songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alain McFadden, a member of award-winning folk group Ye Vagabonds, has shared his first solo single ‘Rising’, also our Song of the Day.

Watch Scottish musician Alasdair Roberts and Irish musician Brigid Mae Power performing ‘The Blacksmith’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland as part of their Myth, Story, Song series.

Taken from her new album, watch Eliza Carthy’s new video for ‘Good Morning Mr Walker’ featuring The Sweet Rosemarys who include Jon Boden and John Spiers, Sheema Mukherjee, Rory MacLeod, Angeline Morrison and the Mighty Sparrow’s bandleader himself, Lane Steinberg.

Featuring Lisa Knapp, The Unthanks, Sam Sweeney, Clara Mann, James Waudby, Trevor Beales, Juni Habel, Lady Maisery, Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell, The Carrivick Sisters, VRÏ, Jack Warnock, Breabach, Gavin Fairhall Lever, Clare Sands, Emily Portman and Rob Harbron, Shovel Dance Collective and Gigspanner Big Band & Raynor Winn.

Author, playwright, TV and Radio presenter, and journalist Colin Irwin has passed away. Best known for his folk music reviews, he really was one of the greats.

The winner of this year’s RTÉ Radio 1’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 goes to Mary Black. The shortlist for this year’s Folk Awards has also been announced including Junior Brother, Clare Sands, Inni-K, Ye Vagabonds, Anna Mieke and lots more.

The 9-piece folk band Shovel Dance Collective announce their new album ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’, exploring resonances of river Thames, and share their lead single ‘The Bold Fisherman’.

Inspired by the life and work of photographer Mike Brodie, Samana release their new single ‘Two Wrongs’, an ode to escaping and breaking free from the mundane.

Dezron Douglas shares the second single from his new album ATALAYA on International Anthem. “More Coffee Please” is ‘a muscular, hard-swinging tune with the energy of the celebrated beverage.’

Spencer Cullum shares his new video for Kingdom Weather (feat. Yuma Abe), the lead single from his forthcoming new album Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, due for release in April 2023.

Featuring Mali Obomsawin, Marisa Anderson, Burd Ellen, One Leg One Eye (Ian Lynch of Lankum), Marlais, Goat, Sharron Kraus, Elspeth Anne, Trevor Beales, David A. Jaycock, Dan Melchior, The Phonometrician, Harmonie Fields, Sound and Voice, Everest Magma, Blake Hornsby, Earth Room, Jessica Moss & more.

Bass player and double bass maker Neal Heppleston releases his new solo album “Plankton and the Whale Shark” next month. Watch the video for his lead single Ebisu, featuring Sharron Kraus and Hayden Berry, a deeply immersive listening experience that you really don’t want to end.