Alex Gallacher

Taken from Simon Flory’s new EP ‘Young Giants’, listen to ‘Little Oak Tree’, a story about an American girl’s life; from her childhood relationship with her dad to the struggles of adulthood.

Taken from their debut album Gin and Strathspey, our Tune of the Day comes from Lyre Lyre featuring ex-Breabach fiddler Patsy Reid, Marit Fält on Nordic mandola and cellist Alice Allen.

Featuring Oren Ambarchi, Sessa, Nathan Salsburg, Makaya McCraven, Revelators Sound System, Alabaster Deplume, Ben LaMar Gay, Guido Möbius, Theo Angell, Joseph Allred, Majid Bekkas, Scrimshire, Pelt, Satomimagae, Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey.

Sitar player, composer and producer Anoushka Shankar is to host a 3-part show for BBC Radio 3 about Indian Classical Music – Exploring rhythms, melodies and stories of both Hindustani and Carnatic music.

Watch the accompanying video to Josh Geffin’s new single, ‘Hold On To The Light’; set in the stunning landscape of Pembrokeshire, West Wales. It’s also the title track of his forthcoming EP.

Taken from their new album Narrow Line, Mama’s Broke share a humorous new video for ‘How It Ends’ – a breezy fiddle-led ballad that is an out-and-out relationship break up song.

MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) stretches his wings on Revelators Sound System, a new collaborative project with Cameron Ralston. Watch the video made by Moses Sun and Bill Jones to accompany ‘George the Revelator’ that was composed the day after George Floyd was murdered.

Watch the video for Wes Tirey’s ‘Red Corn, Yellow Corn’, taken from his latest album ‘The Midwest Book of the Dead’ which gets a double vinyl re-release on Mapache Records next month.

On “Baby, You’re a Gun”, the latest single from Country soul singer-songwriter Tami Neilson, she explores society’s underestimation of strong women and the roles they are expected to play.

Taken from her latest album 30 : Happy Returns which celebrates her 30 years as a professional musician in 2022, watch Kate Rusby performing Ghost, the title track of her 2014 album.

Taken from their forthcoming album Cross the Rolling Water, watch Hannah Read and Michael Starkey performing a cover of Anais Mitchell’s Shenandoah. The agile, stripped-back combination of banjo and guitar amplifies the emotion carried in Hannah’s vocals which really brings this heartfelt song alive.

A BBC Radio 3 Late Junction session from 2020 featuring Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and writer and performer Roy Claire Potter is to be released on Cafe OTO’s in house label OTOROKU.