Alex Gallacher

A crate-diggers delight arrives on September 15th from Jalopy Records. ‘The Secret Museum of Mankind – Atlas of Instruments, Fiddles, Vol. 1’ features fiddle music recorded in the first half of the 20th century from Oxfordshire to Madagascar.

Pōneke/Wellington-based Ebony Lamb has just announced she’s signed with Nadia Reid’s label Slow Time Records, and to celebrate, she’s sharing her brand new single and video ‘My Daughter My Sister My Son’.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew feat. Dorival Caymmi, Sean Gray, King Creosote, Guy Capecelatro III, Buffalo Daughter, Dengue Fever, P.G. Six, John Prine & Kelsey Waldon, Doug Paisley, Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Neill, Howe Gelb, Jerry Jeff Walker, Wax Machine, The Nude Party and more.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her third solo album ‘Carrying’ and shares lead single ‘The Center’, on which she showcases her more lush, elaborate arrangements; it’s also our Song of the Day.

The innovative Scottish smallpipes player and experimental music purveyor Brìghde Chaimbeul has a busy few months ahead. She’ll be making plenty of festival appearances, delivering both solo and collaborative performances. We take a look back at her album releases to date.

Liz Hanks is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them. Liz’s new album, Land, is out now on Hudson Records.

Watch the mighty Pentangle performing ‘Blues In Time’, recorded in January 1971 by the BBC. Jacqui McShee sits out this one, leaving Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox to work their instrumental magic.

Taken from their second album, ‘The Beautiful Road‘, Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly share a beautiful video for their new single ‘King of the Kingdom (Rí A’Ríocht)’. Rónán says after his dance, “…it’s like a medicine”…it is.

The Mary Wallopers announce their new album, ‘Irish Rock N Roll’ and share their lead single ‘Wexford’, written by the legendary Irish travelling musician Pecker Dunne, whose songs were covered by the likes of The Dubliners…Anne Briggs also busked with him in Ireland.

Watch the animated video (by Pat Gubler and Mayuko Fujino) for ‘I Have a House’, the new single from P.G. Six, taken from his forthcoming new album Murmurs & Whispers – Modern folk music at its most psychedelically progressive.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Sam Burton, The Lilac Time, Blake Mills, Julie Byrne, Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz, Huw Marc Bennett, The Handsome Family, Matthew Halsall, Ursula K. Le Guinn & Todd Barton, Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak and more.

Our latest Mixtape features music from Jimmie Driftwood, J.J. Cale, Julie Doiron, Damien Jurado & Richard Swift, Laura J Martin, Sister O. M. Terrell, Adrian Crowley, Dirty Projectors, Saint Sister, Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini, Carolyn Hester and more.