Alex Gallacher

Watch Nora Brown performing Wild Bill Jones with fiddle player Stephanie Coleman; plus, watch a recent clip of her performing with The Rheingans Sisters at Folkové Prázdniny.

Check out our latest Best New Folk & Roots Music Playlist featuring Jake Blount, Fritillaries, The Wilderness Yet, Anna Mieke, Jenny Sturgeon & M G Boulter, Dana Gavanski, Myles O’Reilly, Cerys Hafana, Sairie, Joseph Allred, Hushman, Alex Dupree and many more.

Dana Gavanski has recorded an EP of covers entitled Bouncing Ball, taking on songs by Roberto Cacciapaglia, Tony, Caro and John and The Kinks. The first to be released is her version of David Bowie’s ‘Word on a Wing’.

Taken from his forthcoming largely collaborative album Voids, watch Old Fire’s (John Mark Lapham) ‘Don’t You Go’, a John Martyn cover featuring Bill Callahan that paints a noirish mural of Lapham’s hometown state.

Luminary guitarist Marisa Anderson pays tribute to Mexican folk tradition with her haunting rendition of “La Llorona”, also our Tune of the Day. Tour dates for the UK, Ireland and Europe kick off this month, with more dates to be announced.

Hurdy-gurdy player Nigel Eaton has just shared a new tune called Great North Wood. He says the new tune is a schottish, “just for a change”.

Jacken Elswyth has put together a playlist that inspired her during the process of creating Six Static Scenes. Featuring Richard Dawson, Dock Boggs, Voice of the People, Laura Cannell and many more.

Our latest Folk Show features Spell Songs, Ensemble Ériu, Varo, Anna & Elizabeth, LAU, Trú, Kim Carnie, Moira Smiley & Piers Facini, Penguin Cafe and Nancy Elizabeth.

Our Tune of the Day comes from the delightfully vibrant and engaging ‘English Fiddle’ album, the solo debut from the multi-talented Will Allen on which he is joined by Rowan Piggott on Cittern.

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes Haberlin have teamed up on the collaborative album LAS. The album is out Friday 2 September, the self-penned instrumental album is the first album of double C smallpipes to be released in the world.

Sidmouth Folk Festival is warming up, and today you can catch Fisherman’s Friends, Jez Lowe, Granny’s Attic, Sheelanagig, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron and many more. There’s so much to see in the week ahead…

Our Song of the Day comes from Eliza Carthy & The Restitution with their new single ‘The Snow it Melts the Soonest’. It’s taken from her new album ‘Queen Of The Whirl’.