Alex Gallacher

Recorded in 1972 while on tour with Mike Seeger, The Old Church is a lost live recording of Roscoe Holcomb which finds him at his finest. “The recording itself is warm and mysterious, sounding like the room itself is alive with the spirit.”

Recorded during their first tour since coming out of Covid restrictions, watch Welsh trio ALAW performing Fill the House. It’s taken from their new album Drawn to the Light which will be launched with a run of live shows starting the end of January.

Released on the 14th January via Olive Grove Records, watch a short film on the making of ‘Staring at Mountains’, the solo debut album from Adam Ross of Randolph’s Leap, which was filmed at Todhead Lighthouse and Kinneff Old Church in Aberdeenshire.

Rura announce collaborative EP ‘Our Voices Echo’ featuring Michael McGoldrick, Duncan Chisholm, Ross Ainslie, Hannah Rarity and Julie Fowlis. Watch their latest video for ‘Dh’èirich Mi Moch Madainn Cheòthar featuring Julie.

Taken from ‘Let The Light In’, watch the new video from Spell Songs for ‘Bramble’, led by Karine Polwart and also featuring Julie Fowlis demonstrating beautiful Gaelic birdsong mimesis as she speaks the voice of Smeòrach, the song thrush.

Our Song of the Day comes from Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada with ‘Te Guardo’, taken from her forthcoming album Marchita. “I sing my songs and I feel good. And the miraculous thing is that they make the people who hear them feel good too.” Very true.

Jim Ghedi announces a full-band tour for March and April 2022, during which he will be joined by Cinder Well. It’s a tour you don’t want to miss and it’s certainly not one you’ll forget.

Filmed at London’s Green Note, watch the new video from Kate Ellis for her brilliant upbeat new single Scars (out now), a love song with attitude, taken from her forthcoming album Spirals.

Taken from his 2021 album ‘The Beat Goes On’, watch Sean Taylor’s accompanying video for ‘The heart of the ocean’. “…a love song. Infinite and ageless. A celebration of the eternal pulse of our shared existence.”

For her new album ‘Elevation’, Norwegian artist Susanna translates into music the rich symbolism and imagery of the work of 19th Century modernist French poet Charles Baudelaire and shares video inspired by his poem “Alchemy of Suffering”.

Welsh folk-pop artist Rosa Lavenne continues her love for that mid-century nostalgia as she shares her new video for ‘Golden Ale’. It’s quite an upbeat number for this melancholic singer and it has a great looping guitar melody that hooks you in.

This Friday, the folk-electronica powerhouse Niteworks release their cinematic new album A’ Ghrian, blending Scottish traditional, folk and Gaelic music with cutting-edge electronica. Listen to Gloomy Winter featuring Hannah Rarity, a song by the ‘Weaver Poet’ Robert Tannahill.