Alex Gallacher

Stephen Cracknell’s ‘The Memory Band’ returns with new album ‘Colours’. Watch the accompanying video for Albion’s Daughter, inspired by the poetry of William Blake.

Our Song of the Day comes from Phil King with a gorgeous cover of Jackson C. Frank’s Blues Run The Game. The song, which featured on Frank’s self-titled debut album has attracted many covers including Bert Jansch, Martin Simpson, Wizz Jones, Eddi Reader and many more.

Filmed and produced by Terry McMahon, watch the video for Lorcan Mac Mathuna’s “A Bhean Úd Thíos”, a Sean Nós song about fairy abduction. It was filmed in a Belcarra Eviction Cottage besides Castlebar in Co. Mayo, a place that seemed to incite the film.

Our Tune of the Day is The Green Light Set, performed by Ross Ainslie, Brìghde Chaimbeul and Steven Byrnes. It opens to three tunes by Ross and ends on a tune by Damien O’Kane called Castlerock Road.

A brief look at the hare in folklore and folk song. From superstitions and omens, to witches and shapeshifting…and their other names: the skidaddler, the nibbler, the slabber, the starer, the wood-cat, the purblind, the furze cat, the skulker, the bleary-eyed, the wall-eyed, the glance-aside and hedge-springer.

Watch the new lyric video ‘Valle Local’, taken from José González’s fourth album Local Valley – “the ideas put forward in this album probe the corners of human consciousness while ultimately being an expression of love, peace and unity.”

Featuring the best in folk and roots music, our latest Folk Show features Peter Bond, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr, Dom Prag, The Memory Band, The McDades, Grain Thief, Stereo Naked, Danny Bradley, The Norfolk Broads, Pete & Chris Coe and lots more.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of her song “I Have Never Loved Someone” My Brightest Diamond is releasing an Orchestrated version of the song. Watch the famous live session recorded in a hotel bar that made it so popular.

Recorded at the Corner House Recording Studio, watch Henry Parker performing ‘Return to the Sky’, taken from his latest album ‘Lammas Fair’ which he is now touring.

Artifacts is a double-LP’s worth of music that traces the evolution of Beirut from a 14-year old Zach Condon’s first attempts at bringing the music he heard in his mind to life, to the fully formed Beirut we know today.

Let What’s In, Out, is the long-awaited new release from accordionist Amy Thatcher. Over four tracks, with not a word to be heard, she conveys moments of serenity and emotional turbulence through top-class musicianship and imparts some food for thought along the way. She is in a class of her own.

Taken from their new forthcoming double album, watch ‘This Heart of Mine’, the new video from The Wave Pictures – it’s a gorgeous audio-visual delight and a reminder of how great it is to have them back.