Alex Gallacher

Featuring a number of special guests including Eliza Carthy and Angharad Jenkins, Just For The Record is a stunning debut from Glen Peters, an album with a genuine and enriching heart. Just don’t make this your last, Peter.

Watch Roscommon-based Gatehouse performing The Gypsies…the tale of a rich lady who falls in love with a dark-eyed gypsy and elopes with him. While unashamedly traditional, their old-school approach is filled with an undeniable warmth and spirit that’s impossible to resist.

Haitian-American artist Leyla McCalla, announces her new album ”Breaking the Thermometer’ and shares video for new single ‘Vini Wè’, inspired by the love story of Radio Haiti station owner and journalist Jean Dominique and his wife and fellow journalist Michéle Montas.

Listen in full to The Wave Pictures “Winter” EP; five songs that make up the next instalment from their forthcoming double album “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”, set for release in May and supported by a UK Tour.

Taken from Deer Scout’s debut full-length Woodpecker album, watch the video for Cowboy, an intimate and intricate number inspired by the naïve character Joe Buck of Midnight Cowboy.

Keston Cobblers Club are back and have shared a video for their new single Mrs Dixon that centres on escapism and the balance of work and fun in life. They have a new album in the works and are on tour in April/May.

Watch ‘Navigation at Sea’, the latest video animation from Simon J Jones of Harp and a Monkey, inspired by the 1967 Ladybird title ‘Understanding Maps’ and taken from his forthcoming album ‘How Things Work’.

Norma Waterson one of the greatest voices of the British folk scene has died, age 82. We look back on her rich musical life and her enduring legacy. The intimacy and connection she made with an audience stayed with you long after she left the stage. There will be no other like her.

Simon Emmerson returns with Weirdy Birdy II. Along this sonic journey, we hear Marry Waterson, Afro Celt Sound System, The Imagined Village, Martha Tilston, a duet with a Mistle Thrush, red deer bellowing on a starry night by the River Tagus and so much more.

Featuring the striking and contemplative work of visual artist Amelia Kosminsky, watch ‘Seekers’, the latest video from Freedom to Roam featuring Eliza Marshall, Catrin Finch, Jackie Shave, Dónal Rogers, Kuljit Bhamra & more. Don’t miss their Spring tour which begins on 22 February 2022.

We talk to NYC-based musician and folklorist Derek Piotr who recently released two folk music compilation albums of mountain songs from North Carolina featuring Child ballads and local murder songs that sit alongside dulcimer & close harmony singing.

Watch “After the Rain”, the lead single from Dean Owens’ forthcoming “Sinners Shrine” album, recorded with members of desert noir Latin rockers Calexico. His music captures the very essence and spirit of the wide-open vistas of the American Southwest in splendid technicolour.