Alex Gallacher

Featuring Lisa Knapp, The Unthanks, Sam Sweeney, Clara Mann, James Waudby, Trevor Beales, Juni Habel, Lady Maisery, Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell, The Carrivick Sisters, VRÏ, Jack Warnock, Breabach, Gavin Fairhall Lever, Clare Sands, Emily Portman and Rob Harbron, Shovel Dance Collective and Gigspanner Big Band & Raynor Winn.

Author, playwright, TV and Radio presenter, and journalist Colin Irwin has passed away. Best known for his folk music reviews, he really was one of the greats.

The winner of this year’s RTÉ Radio 1’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 goes to Mary Black. The shortlist for this year’s Folk Awards has also been announced including Junior Brother, Clare Sands, Inni-K, Ye Vagabonds, Anna Mieke and lots more.

The 9-piece folk band Shovel Dance Collective announce their new album ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’, exploring resonances of river Thames, and share their lead single ‘The Bold Fisherman’.

Inspired by the life and work of photographer Mike Brodie, Samana release their new single ‘Two Wrongs’, an ode to escaping and breaking free from the mundane.

Dezron Douglas shares the second single from his new album ATALAYA on International Anthem. “More Coffee Please” is ‘a muscular, hard-swinging tune with the energy of the celebrated beverage.’

Spencer Cullum shares his new video for Kingdom Weather (feat. Yuma Abe), the lead single from his forthcoming new album Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, due for release in April 2023.

Featuring Mali Obomsawin, Marisa Anderson, Burd Ellen, One Leg One Eye (Ian Lynch of Lankum), Marlais, Goat, Sharron Kraus, Elspeth Anne, Trevor Beales, David A. Jaycock, Dan Melchior, The Phonometrician, Harmonie Fields, Sound and Voice, Everest Magma, Blake Hornsby, Earth Room, Jessica Moss & more.

Bass player and double bass maker Neal Heppleston releases his new solo album “Plankton and the Whale Shark” next month. Watch the video for his lead single Ebisu, featuring Sharron Kraus and Hayden Berry, a deeply immersive listening experience that you really don’t want to end.

Old Spot are a new Old-Time duo featuring Joe Danks and Rowan Piggott. The first video from Old Spot’s debut album sees earthy gourd banjo and the natural beauty of Padley Gorge underpinning the winding Old Time fiddle tune ‘Black Eyed Susie Jane’.

Basin Rock are to release an album of never-before-heard 70s British folk by Trevor Beales, recorded in the attic of his family home in Hebden Bridge when still a teenager. One to file next to Davey Graham, Michael Chapman, Bert Jansch and Jackson C Frank.

On 11 November, Lady Maisery, the combined multi-talents of Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans, return with their new album ‘tender’. Watch the accompanying video for ‘bird i do not know’, their lead single, a song of hope, born of turbulent times.