Alex Gallacher

Bristol-based folk music trio Tarren, featuring Sid Goldsmith, Alex Garden and Danny Pedler share video for De Rien, taken from their forthcoming celebratory debut album Revel.

The countdown to Derby Folk Festival is on featuring Lady Nade, Spiers & Boden, Robb Johnson, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Granny’s Attic, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Jez Lowe, Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell, Narthen, The Carrivick Sisters, The Pitmen Poets, Lucy Ward & more

Son of John shares a lyric video for his third album single, Feel That Moment, the whole movement and feel of which is sublime; one of many magical moments from this beautiful album.

Taken from his forthcoming ‘Hinterland EP’, watch StevieRay Latham’s “Fugitive”, an up-tempo, folk-rock groove and urgent, lyrical story-telling which sweeps the listener into an allegorical world of existential psychodrama and substance abuse.

Watch Brighton-based folk group Bird In The Belly performing their new song ‘Employ John Day No More’ in Sherbourne Valley Allotments. The song is inspired by the diaries of food horticulturalist John Whittingham which span from 1745-91.

Lossan, the duo debut from Manx Gaelic singer Ruth Keggin and Scottish Harpist Rachel Hair is one of the most beautiful albums I’ve heard this year. If anything makes you fall in love with the Manx culture and language, this will.

Taken from the latest all-star-folk-cast Lush compilation album ‘Life’s What You Make It’, watch Jackie Oates’ cover of The Cure’s ‘Untitled’ – she teases out the folk DNA to breathtaking effect.

In a new series of posts looking at Folk and Traditional Music over the ages, we head back to 1951 for The first Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh – the big bang of the Scottish folk revival; presided over by Hamish Henderson and recorded by Alan Lomax.

Megan Henderson of Breabach joins forces with Moana & The Tribe for their latest single ‘Maiea’, which features lyrics in both Māori and Gaelic. The accompanying video, which features Moana’s daughter, was filmed in New Zealand and Scotland.

This week’s Folk Show features a rich offering of British and Irish folk music. Throughout are a number of recordings from Topic Records’ widely-acclaimed and seminal traditional British folk music series Voice of the People.

In 2019, Fran Foote and her mother Belinda Kempster, released an album featuring English folk songs, one of which was “Knife in the Window” which Fran learned from her great uncle Ernie Austin who also recorded an album for Topic Records in 1974.

The A’s, featuring Amelia Meath and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig of Mountain Man have shared their latest single – a beautiful version of the Appalachian folk song ‘Wedding Dress’.