Alex Gallacher

Folk Radio UK have teamed up with Treadwells Bookshop again for another online workshop on 12 May. In this second ‘Magic in Folk Song’ class,  Hannah Sanders explores shapeshifting and plant magic.

The Shee are out on the road on their ‘Summer’s Promise’ Tour which sees them performing at intimate venues throughout the UK, and culminating in a performance at Edinburgh’s Tradfest on Monday 9th May.

Orbury Common is a place rooted in the collective imagination of Bristol & Stroud-based Emlyn Bainbridge and Josh Day-Jones…songs to accompany ecstatic ceremonies and strange, fire-side customs, drawing parallels between ancient rituals and raves.

David Ford and Annie Dressner joined forces at the beginning of 2022 and are to release their debut album in July titled 48 Hours. The release is supported by a UK Summer Tour.

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘The Devil Knows How’, listen to Derek Piotr’s ‘Old Lady and the Devil’. These are untethered traditional ballads and folk tunes to delight in.

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.