Alex Gallacher

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.

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.