Alex Gallacher

Toronto-based, acoustic power trio Lonesome Ace Stringband will release their sixth release, Try To Make it Fly, on October 13th. Listen to, and watch their video for, ‘Sweeter Sound’ – 100% pure joy, a killer combo wrapped up in an infectious energetic bliss.

Emma Gatrill has today announced her new album ‘Come Swim’ which will arrive on 24th November 2023 via Willkommen Records, and she has shared the shimmering and transportive single ‘Adonis Blue’; a collaboration with Villagers’ Conor O’Brien.

Taken from their sixth studio LP, ‘Shanty Punk’, Skinny Lister share a rip-roaring new video for their latest single ‘Company of the Bar’, filmed at the end of a garden in a converted shed known as The Forge & Flagon, their boozer of choice.

On the approach to his 77th birthday, Irish folk legend Finbar Furey announces his new album ‘Moments in Time’ and shares the video for ‘Kitty’, a song he was asked to sing for Shane MacGowan at his 60th birthday event in the National Concert Hall Dublin.

UK guitarist Dean McPhee has announced the release of his fifth LP ‘Astral Gold’, which combines influences from Dub, Underground Electronic Music, Kosmische, Post Rock & British Folk. It is his first release on his new ‘Bass Ritual’ label.

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.