Alex Gallacher

Megan Henderson, a member of the award-winning Scottish folk group Breabach, will release her long-awaited solo-debut Pilgrim Souls on 21 January 2022. Listen to her first single, The Dawn Chorus.

Watch the latest video from Valtos (Skye Natives Daniel Docherty and Martyn MacDonald) for their remix of Peatbog Faeries ‘Marx Terrace’, on which they add their own twist and ‘Valtos flair’. It features some great clips from their sold-out show at SWG3, Glasgow.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jake Xerxes Fussell with “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” the fourth and final single off taken from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st on Paradise of Bachelors.

Celtic Connections have confirmed that a number of shows and elements within the 2022 programme can no longer go ahead due to the uncertainty and disruption caused by the Omicron variant.

Taken from their fifth studio album Overland (out on 14th January), watch the superb new animated video from UK Americana band Police Dog Hogan for ‘Here Comes Crow’. Their best yet.

As far as tribute albums go, they don’t come much better than this. Nancy Kerr’s ‘The Poor Shall Wear the Crown‘ is a heartfelt and tremendous album that shines a bright light on the poetic work of Leon Rosselson.

Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis has released a digital EP featuring songs she composed to accompany the Source To Sea podcast series in which Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travel the length of three major Scottish rivers (The River Dee, River Tay and River Clyde).

Featuring Clelia Vega with James P Honey, Big Thief, The Baird Sisters, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nathan Bowles, Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles, Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang, Roseanne Reid, Doug Tielli, Hiss Golden Messenger, Clogs, Sally Anne Morgan, Jouis, Turner Cody.

Sam Sweeney announces ‘Solo’, the first in a series of EPs that highlight the band members who performed on his acclaimed album ‘Unearth Repeat’. Listen to opening track “Untitled Waltz #1 / Tweedside”.

Watch the video for ‘Meeting Is Over’, the new single from Moira Smiley featuring Piers Faccini and Seamus Egan – a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. The perfect end-of-year song.

Featuring C Joynes, Erlend Apneseth & Margit Myhr, The Little Unsaid, Isaac Birituro and The Rail Abandon, Jacqui Alpine, Myriam Gendron, Sarah Louise, Elkhorn, Charlie Parr, Circuit Des Yeux, Ben LaMar Gay, Six Organs Of Admittance, Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Lonnie Holley, Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo.

Featuring Harley Kimbro Lewis, Dawn Landes, Piers Faccini & Blick Bassy, Old Salt, Dyad, Cocanha, Cath & Phil Tyler, Tim Eriksen, Milkweed, Aèdes, Jenny Lysander & Gunda (Гәында).