Alex Gallacher

Watch ‘Blink The Sun’, the fourth and final in a series of videos/tracks heralding The Wave Pictures’ forthcoming double album ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’, due for 20 May release on Moshi Moshi and supported by a UK Tour.

Taken from their Topic Records debut, ‘Ink Of The Rosy Morning’, watch the latest video from Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage for ‘Polly O Polly’. Hannah also recalls how she first heard the song performed by David Holt while at a festival with her parents.

Watch Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan performing ‘The Old Men Of The Shells’, a song by Alasdair Roberts that featured on his 2007 album The Amber Gatherers. Karine and Dave are on tour in May 2022 including the Edinburgh Tradfest.

Lush have announced another triple vinyl folk compilation, this time covering the 1980s that includes Jackie Oates, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Marry Waterson, Teddy Thompson, Lisa Knapp, Stealing Sheep and more. Watch Martha Tilston covering Kate Bush’s classic Cloudbusting.

Taken from Lily Henley’s forthcoming album Oras Dezaoradas, a collection of beautiful Judeo-Spanish Folk Songs, listen to ‘Avre Tu Puerta Serrada’. Henley’s approach to this Sephardic tradition is inspiring, refreshing and enduring.

Taken from his latest album ‘Last of the Better Days Ahead’ and ahead of his UK & Ireland Tour next month, watch Charlie Parr performing ‘817 Oakland Avenue’ live.

Taken from his new album, You and I Must Be Out of My Mind, Folk-Americana singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dietrich Strause shares his stunning new video for ‘Call to Me’, a song with a delicate gauze-like quality, evoking both tenderness and fragility.

Featuring Charley Crockett, Marlon Williams, Nina Simone, The Railsplitters, Angel Olsen, Sunny War, Molly Tuttle, Shakey Graves, Edward Sharpe, Sufjan Stevens, Abigail Lapell, Tia Blake, Micah P Hinson and more.

Filmed in the late summer of 2021 in a field near the Gate To Southwell Folk Festival, watch John Spiers and Jon Boden performing Bailey Hill / Wittenham Clumps from their latest album ‘Fallow Ground’. The duo are on tour in June.

Bristol-based folk duo Fritillaries release their beautiful new single ‘Unearthing’ today, accompanied by a stunning video by Giulia Franchi which we have the pleasure of sharing on Folk Radio today.

The Breath, Thea Gilmore, Edward II, 3 Daft Monkeys, Amythyst Kiah, Lady Nade, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and The Haar are among the latest artists to join the line-up for this summer’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

Magpies members Bella Gaffney and Holly Brandon are playing a short tour together in late April, Bella solo and Holly in her side project Painted Sky with her brother George.