Alex Gallacher

Marlais, the stage name of Michael Culme-Seymour, returns in July with a tape of folk songs “The Nightingales Are Drunk”. Watch him performing ‘My Bonny Boy’ inspired by Anne Briggs.

Check out our latest Best New Music Playlist featuring Clare Sands, Joan Shelley, Mychelle, Jason McNiff, Son of John, Andrew Tuttle, Damien Jurado, Bonny Light Horseman, Wax Machine, Angeline Morrison, Jake Blount, Bella Hardy, Rachael Dadd, Diatom Deli and many more.

The Ulster trio TRÚ have released a new single, the Ukrainian Folk Song ‘Plyve Kacha’. All proceeds from the track will be going to Ukrainian and Palestinian charities.

Following the release earlier this month of ‘Howling Wind’, Alela Diane has today released another new single titled ‘Paloma’. Watch the accompanying video which features her two daughters providing her with a unique makeover.

Andrew Tuttle’s latest album single is ‘New Breakfast Habit’, on which he is joined by Luke Schneider on pedal steel and Darren Cross on acoustic guitar. This is music you want to wake to and the accompanying video is a beautiful visual response to that.

Jake Blount announces dystopian Afrofuturistic concept album, The New Faith, out September 23rd on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and shares his first single ‘Didn’t It Rain’, a song made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson.

In our latest Lost in Transmission mix we go Globetrotting – We head to France, Trinidad, Jamaica, Ghana, Malawi, Colombia taking in The Pioneers, Honny and the Bees Band, Meridian Brothers, Dennis Alcapone and lots more. From the 1970s to modern day.

Chicago-based guitarist/composer Eli Winter has announced the release of a new self-titled album featuring Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, Jordan Reyes, David Grubbs, Ryley Walker and more. Watch the video for his lead single For a Chisos Bluebonnet.

Dennis Cahill, one of the world’s finest guitarists in traditional Irish music has died at the age of 68. Dennis was best known for playing alongside Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes and also as a member of The Gloaming.

Bassist-turned-songwriter Anna Butterss, shares ‘Doo Wop’ from her forthcoming electro-acoustic opus ‘Activities’. As she proves here, her charm and magic lie as much in her keen ear as her musical virtuosity.

Taken from Saltlines, the new show and collaborative project from The Gigspanner Big Band and author Raynor Winn, listen to Ten Thousand Miles and read John Spiers’s personal insight into the song collected by Cecil Sharp. Saltines is on Tour in July.

Seckou Keita has shared a beautiful video performance in tribute to Mamady Keita, the Guinean drummer who passed away this time last year in Belgium at the age of 71.