Alex Gallacher

Andy Smith of Harp & a Monkey shares the video for ‘An English Village’, the title track of his first solo album, which combines English folk music with abstract electronica and offers a playful and often tongue-in-cheek look at traditional English village life.

This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus we have plenty of other new folk music releases including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more.

On 29th September 2023, Claddagh Records will publish Real to Reel: Garech Browne & Claddagh Records by James Morrissey – a stunning new large-format hardback book together with a vinyl box set celebrating the life of Guinness heir Garech Browne and his quest to preserve Ireland’s musical and spoken-word heritage with Claddagh Records.

Following the release of his latest album ‘Stand in the Joy’, and his debut appearance at this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival, William Prince returns to the UK & Ireland in November as part of his extensive European Tour.

Visual artist Jake Blanchard, well known for his album artwork, including Richard Dawson, James Jackson Toth, Elkhorn, Mike Gangloff, Pelt and more, has unveiled his new exhibition, Creatures, which runs until 27th August at Todmorden’s Studio 9a.

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Karine Polwart, Peatbog Faeries, David Francey, Joshua Burnside, Frankie Armstrong, Mimi and Richard Fariña, Harry Boardman, Kris Drever, Mipso, Hannah Read and Michael Starkey, Allison Russell, Karima Walker, The Breath, Josienne Clarke, Marlais, Rosie Miles, Tia Blake and Frankie Archer.

The Breath, the sublime partnership of Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum, have revealed details of their third album’ Land Of My Other’, due for release via Real World Records on 13th October 2023. Listen to their lead single ‘Don’t Rush It’.

Fans of David Francey are in for a treat next month as the Ayrshire-born, Canadian-based folk icon releases his long-awaited new album “The Breath Between”. Listen to his lead-single ‘I Called it Love’.

Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, activist and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell shares a video for her irresistible new single ‘Snakelife’; …a conjuring; a summoning; a spell; an invocation of the Afro-Future-Rainbow-Coalition-Transformative.

Robbie Robertson, Canadian lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band, has died at age 80. We share some magic moments with Bob Dylan and The Band, including The Basement Tapes, when Dylan went electric, and the legendary 1971 Academy Of Music concerts.

Michele Stodart shares the video for ‘Tell Me’, a brave conversation between the truth and lies of a relationship… It’s the first single released from her new album ‘Invitation’, reflecting motherhood, relationships, mental health, transformation, endings and new beginnings.

Taken from their new Cove EP (out now on HudsonRecords), watch Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak performing ‘Vaishnava Jana To/Quiet Joys of Brotherhood’ – a devotional piece regularly heard and sung in India and poem by Richard Fariña.