Alex Gallacher

Todd Snider shares hilarious and heartwarming snapshots of his first shows since the pandemic on his new alive album – Live: Return Of The Storyteller. Watch the accompanying tour-diary style video for Just like Old Times.

Hushman is the new project from renowned folk musician, singer & songwriter Ewan MacPherson. Watch him performing ‘It’s all in the Distance’, our Song of the Day and the latest single from his forthcoming album.

Austin-based cosmic indie folk band The Deer, are warming up for the release of their new album The Beautiful Undead on Keeled Scales. Watch their latest video for their album single ‘Baby Green’.

Poor Creature is the new project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. While taking inspiration from the Irish tradition, their approach is experimental, edgy and refreshingly original.

Watch Nora Brown performing Wild Bill Jones with fiddle player Stephanie Coleman; plus, watch a recent clip of her performing with The Rheingans Sisters at Folkové Prázdniny.

Check out our latest Best New Folk & Roots Music Playlist featuring Jake Blount, Fritillaries, The Wilderness Yet, Anna Mieke, Jenny Sturgeon & M G Boulter, Dana Gavanski, Myles O’Reilly, Cerys Hafana, Sairie, Joseph Allred, Hushman, Alex Dupree and many more.

Dana Gavanski has recorded an EP of covers entitled Bouncing Ball, taking on songs by Roberto Cacciapaglia, Tony, Caro and John and The Kinks. The first to be released is her version of David Bowie’s ‘Word on a Wing’.

Taken from his forthcoming largely collaborative album Voids, watch Old Fire’s (John Mark Lapham) ‘Don’t You Go’, a John Martyn cover featuring Bill Callahan that paints a noirish mural of Lapham’s hometown state.

Luminary guitarist Marisa Anderson pays tribute to Mexican folk tradition with her haunting rendition of “La Llorona”, also our Tune of the Day. Tour dates for the UK, Ireland and Europe kick off this month, with more dates to be announced.

Hurdy-gurdy player Nigel Eaton has just shared a new tune called Great North Wood. He says the new tune is a schottish, “just for a change”.

Jacken Elswyth has put together a playlist that inspired her during the process of creating Six Static Scenes. Featuring Richard Dawson, Dock Boggs, Voice of the People, Laura Cannell and many more.

Our latest Folk Show features Spell Songs, Ensemble Ériu, Varo, Anna & Elizabeth, LAU, Trú, Kim Carnie, Moira Smiley & Piers Facini, Penguin Cafe and Nancy Elizabeth.