Alex Gallacher

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.

Ahead of his appearance at the Green Man Festival and a string of UK dates, Spencer Cullum shares his new single ‘Could We, Canvey’, a song about visiting his father’s childhood home of Canvey Island, Essex.

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Ngozi Family, Shirley Collins, Damien Jurado, Marion Williams, Karen Dalton, Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak, Avita Raz, Joseph Decosimo, Kikagaku Moyo, Clem Snide, Marie Bashiru, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, The Hermit, Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes and lots more

Ten months ago, Bill Callahan released YTI​⅃​A​Ǝ​Я on Drag City Records and he has just released his first music video for the album – Last One At The Party – the video shows us a man way out there on an island of his own that sits right at the heart of humanity. 

Northumberland singer-songwriter Frankie Archer has won the Christian Raphael Prize 2023. Launched in 2018, the award is run in association with the Cambridge Folk Festival and previous winners include Mishra, Katherine Priddy, Nick Hart and, in 2022, Angeline Morrison.

Our latest Folk Show features Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly, The Scrub Jay Orchestra, Cup O Joe, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Eliza Carthy Trio, Jon Wilks, LAU, Norman Paterson, Seth Lakeman and more.

Watch the beautiful video for El Hara, the lead single from Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary’s debut album ‘So Far We Have Come’. Their UK Tour kicks off this month, starting at Sidmouth Folk Festival. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to catch them live.

American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore announces her new album ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ and shares the video for lead single “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me”, featuring two of her closest friends — songwriter Meg Baird and accordionist composer Walt McClements.