Alex Gallacher

From a ‘BBC In Concert’ recording, made on 4th January 1971 and featuring Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, watch Pentangle performing ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’, from their ‘Sweet Child’ album.

Taken from their new album, The Beautiful Road, watch the latest video from Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly. ‘Calling All Angels’ was filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly and features Rónán and Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng.

We revisit Gerry Diver’s Speech Project – music derived from the melody and rhythm of spoken words – ‘a kind of folk minimalism on the cutting edge of folk crossover’. The album featured contributions from Shane MacGowan, Christy Moore, Damien Dempsey, Danny Meehan and Martin Hayes.

What better way to celebrate the last days of summer than attending Martin Hayes’ Masters of Tradition next week in Bantry, West Cork. Featuring Sam Amidon, The Begley Clann, Luka Bloom, Steve Cooney, Crash Ensemble, Kate Ellis, Cora Venus Lunny, Mick O’Brien, Ultan O’Brien, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and more.

Welsh/English folk duo ‘Filkin’s Drift’ look to an ancient Welsh bardic tradition in a radical approach to sustainable touring. To coincide with their debut EP, they will undertake an 870-mile walking tour of the Wales Coast Path, performing 40 shows along the way.

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’.