Alex Gallacher

Scottish folksinger and guitarist Kris Drever heads over to Ireland in September for a solo tour taking in Clonakilty International Guitar Festival and ending at Whelan’s in Dublin before heading back to the UK for an extensive run of November dates. Not to be missed.

Our Song of the Day is “I Needed You’, the lead single for Brooklyn-based folk songwriter Eliza Edens’ sophomore album We’ll Become the Flowers. Like a good photo, how you frame a subject makes all the difference, and Edens provides a masterclass in composition.

Todd Snider shares hilarious and heartwarming snapshots of his first shows since the pandemic on his new alive album – Live: Return Of The Storyteller. Watch the accompanying tour-diary style video for Just like Old Times.

Hushman is the new project from renowned folk musician, singer & songwriter Ewan MacPherson. Watch him performing ‘It’s all in the Distance’, our Song of the Day and the latest single from his forthcoming album.

Austin-based cosmic indie folk band The Deer, are warming up for the release of their new album The Beautiful Undead on Keeled Scales. Watch their latest video for their album single ‘Baby Green’.

Poor Creature is the new project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. While taking inspiration from the Irish tradition, their approach is experimental, edgy and refreshingly original.

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”.