Alex Gallacher

Taken from their new album Narrow Line, Mama’s Broke share a humorous new video for ‘How It Ends’ – a breezy fiddle-led ballad that is an out-and-out relationship break up song.

MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) stretches his wings on Revelators Sound System, a new collaborative project with Cameron Ralston. Watch the video made by Moses Sun and Bill Jones to accompany ‘George the Revelator’ that was composed the day after George Floyd was murdered.

Watch the video for Wes Tirey’s ‘Red Corn, Yellow Corn’, taken from his latest album ‘The Midwest Book of the Dead’ which gets a double vinyl re-release on Mapache Records next month.

On “Baby, You’re a Gun”, the latest single from Country soul singer-songwriter Tami Neilson, she explores society’s underestimation of strong women and the roles they are expected to play.

Taken from her latest album 30 : Happy Returns which celebrates her 30 years as a professional musician in 2022, watch Kate Rusby performing Ghost, the title track of her 2014 album.

Taken from their forthcoming album Cross the Rolling Water, watch Hannah Read and Michael Starkey performing a cover of Anais Mitchell’s Shenandoah. The agile, stripped-back combination of banjo and guitar amplifies the emotion carried in Hannah’s vocals which really brings this heartfelt song alive.

A BBC Radio 3 Late Junction session from 2020 featuring Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and writer and performer Roy Claire Potter is to be released on Cafe OTO’s in house label OTOROKU.

Watch the accompanying video for Eel Song, the remarkable new single from The Shackleton Trio which tells the story of the European Eel. It’s one of the best folk songs I’ve heard this year and is also our Song of the Day.

Thread is the latest single from Bristolian singer-songwriter Clara Mann. It’s also our Song of the Day. Like Molly Drake, she shares that similar vivid poetic vision, her songs are both calming, ambiguous and beautifully crafted.

Stick in the Wheel announce the release of Perspectives on Tradition, the fruits of an EFDSS residency and collaboration with Jon1st (DMC champion), Nabihah Iqbal (NTS/Ninja Tune) and Olugbenga (Metronomy). Listen to the first track ‘The Milkmaid’.

Watch the lyric video for ‘Bicycle’, the new single by Canadian Folk Music Award nominees The Bombadils (Sarah Frank and Luke Fraser), taken from their forthcoming album ‘Dear Friend’.

Reval:Pettäsaamislugu is our Song of the Day and the new single from Swedish-Estonian musical experimenter and composer Tuulikki Bartosik. It finds her in new and exciting territory and is taken from her new album Playscapes, due to be released later this year.