Alex Gallacher

Dean Owens and filmmaker Ruth Barrie have put together a video for “We Need Us” to show support and solidarity with the people of  Ukraine and to highlight the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.

Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return in April with their highly anticipated second album Where Old Ghosts Meet. Watch their latest video for album single Wild Rover, due for release on St Patrick’s Day.

Recorded in 2011, ANTI- Records have announced ‘Carry Me Home’, a new album that showcases the music of Mavis Staples and Levon Helm. Watch the video for lead single “You Got To Move” which finds Staples’ and Helm’s bands operating at the peak of their powers.

The Young’uns are on tour next month, marking the beginning of their journey towards the release of their next album and BBC Radio 3 are making a special recording of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff theatre show.

French songstress Sophia Djebel Rose shares her video for Le Palais which she filmed around her house in the heart of winter as a promise of summer. It calls to mind the dream-like bleakness that permeates Nico’s Desertshore.

Paul Brady announces new album ‘Maybe So’. Listen to his lead single ‘It’s A Beautiful World (Now You Are Here)’ – “a song that celebrates the arrival of new life on the planet despite the sadness and chaos that rules the world at the moment.”

Kate Rusby announces her 30th Anniversary album “30 : Happy Returns” featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Richard Hawley, Darlingside, KT Tunstall, Sarah Jarosz, Sam Kelly, Dan Tyminski, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Damien O’Kane.

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra share new single and video for ‘We Are Part Mineral’ – “There’s a sense of deep rooted humanity – that our time here on earth is short and we will never fully hear the rocks sing, as they shift over millennia.”

In time for International Women’s Day and taken from their forthcoming new album “A Year Too Late and a Month Too Soon (Songs from Yorkshire)”, Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones premiere their video for ‘Wanton Lasses Pity Her’ a traditional song from North Yorkshire.

A Folk Show special featuring several Ukrainian bands including DakhaBrakha, Eteria, Gamardah Fungus, Laboratorium Pieśni alongside Oysterband, DLÙ, Bird In The Belly, Topette!!, Ye Vagabonds, Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and more.

FolkeFest is a new folk festival for Folkestone featuring Sam Lee, Rachel Sermanni, Martha Tilston, Lunatraktors, Sam Brookes, London Contemporary Voices, Shovel Dance Collective, Milkweed, Rihab Azar and many more, alongside street theatre, film and dance, to workshops, talks and even clog dancing.

Taken from Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage’s forthcoming new album ‘Ink of the Rosy Morning’ on Topic Records, watch their accompanying video for the tender folk ballad ‘False True Love’ which is released today.