Alex Gallacher

St Caron’s Well Festival of Psych and strange music takes place in Tregaron West Wales (4-6 March) featuring Burd Ellen, Rhodri Davies, Alula Down, Ceri Rhys Matthews, Moongoose, itdreamedtome, Pefkin, Alan Holmes and Zoe Skoulding, De Louet, Crausius & Modular Synth Meet.

Rakish are a New England-based duo comprised of Maura Shawn Scanlin on fiddle and Conor Hearn on guitar. Watch their video for their new single ‘The Lucky One’ from their forthcoming album ‘ Counting Down the Hours’, produced by Seamus Egan of Solas.

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Koady Chaisson of Prince Edward Island trio The East Pointers who was just 37 years old. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, loved ones & everyone who knew him.

Watch the new video from Chicago’s Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden/Funeral Bonsai Wedding) for his new single, ‘A World Without You A World Without You’, an achingly soulful number to be released on 21 January.

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Our latest Folk Show delivers the best in Folk and Roots Music featuring Salt House, Moira Smiley & Piers Faccini, Julie Fowlis, Megan Henderson, Police Dog Hogan, Aoife O’Donovan, Talisk, Bruce MacGregor, Rakish, Nancy Kerr, Sam Sweeney, Brìghde Chaimbeul and more.

Taken from her ‘Like Animals’ album (2020), watch the new video from Charlie Dore for ‘Ordinary Names’…names that have fallen out of fashion and heydays of the past.

Megan Henderson, a member of the award-winning Scottish folk group Breabach, will release her long-awaited solo-debut Pilgrim Souls on 21 January 2022. Listen to her first single, The Dawn Chorus.

Watch the latest video from Valtos (Skye Natives Daniel Docherty and Martyn MacDonald) for their remix of Peatbog Faeries ‘Marx Terrace’, on which they add their own twist and ‘Valtos flair’. It features some great clips from their sold-out show at SWG3, Glasgow.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jake Xerxes Fussell with “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” the fourth and final single off taken from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st on Paradise of Bachelors.

Celtic Connections have confirmed that a number of shows and elements within the 2022 programme can no longer go ahead due to the uncertainty and disruption caused by the Omicron variant.

Taken from their fifth studio album Overland (out on 14th January), watch the superb new animated video from UK Americana band Police Dog Hogan for ‘Here Comes Crow’. Their best yet.