Alex Gallacher

“Sounding like a UFO slowly sinking into a peat bog” – Paradise of Bachelors announce new band project ‘Setting’ featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund. Listen to their lead single ‘Zoetropics’ from their debut album ‘Shone A Rainbow Light On’

Watch the video for Dublin City Bells, the new single from contemporary folk artist Lewis Barfoot, taken from her forthcoming second album, Home, due in November 2023. She is on tour in the UK in September.

Last month, Wren Hinds released his new album, Don’t Die in the Bundu, and in our album review, it was described as a timeless beauty. Listen to the album in full and enjoy Wren’s personal Track by Track guide.

Kent-born singer and multi-instrumentalist Will Page of Noble Jacks premieres his new single celebrating the Kent-based festival Broadstairs Folk Week that kicks off on August 12th. He says: “I hope I can inspire more young musicians to take up folk.”

This Sunday, folksinging legend Shirley Collins is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She will be sharing eight tracks, a book and a luxury item that she would take with her if cast away to a desert island.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew ft. Sinead O’Connor, Seth Lakeman, Rachel Sermanni, Emma Gatrill, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Cormac Begley, Martin Simpson, Lonesome Ace Stringband, Jake Blount, Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, Hot Vultures, Clifton Hicks, Anna & Elizabeth, Mama’s Broke & more.

Lankum’s fourth release, False Lankum, has been nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ in this year’s Mercury Music Prize. It’s been a long road but so well-deserved. Talking to BBC 6 Music they said “It’s pretty crazy, considering where we started off twenty years ago…”

Inspired by his time with the critically acclaimed The Lost Words: Spell Songs, Jim Molyneux has released his solo debut single, Every Road, which paints the scene of a broken relationship, and the stages of grief, denial, and ultimately acceptance which one experiences within that.

Benji Kirkpatrick has announced his new solo album, ‘In Phase’. The songs range from the intensely personal, such as the title track – released as a single today, to political and worldwide issues and the search for truth.

Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Dreamer Awake’ on Navigator Records, Rachel Sermanni shares her new video and single ‘Killer Line’. The album connects deeply with ideas of the subconscious, and nothing embodies that exploration more perfectly than this track.

Taken from her fourth album ‘Aspirin Sun’, Emma Tricca shares the accompanying video to ‘Devotion’ on which ‘loss is brought into immediate, dazzling focus’…”Tricca is one of our most valuable and interesting songwriters, capable of strange and beautiful sonic flights of fancy and unexpected lyrical turns”

After the release of Sea Song Sessions on Topic Records and a mini tour by ship last year, Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter will be reunited once more for a short run of live dates in September 2023.