Alex Gallacher

This year’s Folk Film Gathering has a fantastic online programme including Director interviews and screenings that include Pat Collins ‘Silence’ + musician interviews: Bonnie “Prince” Billy in conversation with Mairi Campbell and Brían Mac Gloinn (of Ye Vagabonds) in conversation with Alasdair Roberts.

This is the Kit announce new 7-track EP ‘Off Off Oddities’. Watch their beautiful cover of ‘Bad Feeling’ by NYC-based supergroup Muzz…a song which “was a real soothing balm during such a mental time.”

Featuring Adrian Crowley, Jeb Loy Nichols, Wilco, Kevin Morby, Brigid Mae Power, Charlie Parr, Anna & Elizabeth, Saint Sister and Lisa Hannigan, Blick Bassy & Piers Faccini, Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsburg, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek & more.

John Blek shares the video for ‘Long Strand’, the lead single from his highly anticipated forthcoming album on which he is joined by Kris Drever, Cheyenne Mize, Kit Downes, as well as regular collaborators Davie Ryan and Brian Casey.

Tarren is a fantastic new English folk project featuring Bristol-based artists Sid Goldsmith, Alex Garden and Danny Pedler. Watch them performing English folk ballad Rigs of the Time; an outstanding performance that lives up to the title of ambassadors for high quality, English Folk music.

For their latest single, The Folkatron Sessions are joined by Sam Lee for ‘Three Galleys’, a classic tale of kidnap and warfare which sounds equally intricate as it does effortless and intuitive – this is cutting edge folk music.

Josienne Clarke shares video for ‘Sit Out’, a gutsy and defiant new single taken from her forthcoming new album “A Small Unknowable Thing” which takes in a wide range of new and diverse influences. It’s also our Song of the Day.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Katherine Priddy, The Breath, Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, Peter Doran and Haley Heynderickx, Adrian Crowley, TRÚ, Fishclaw, Alula Down, HAV & Iona Fyfe, Little Arrow and Khasi-Cymru Collective.

Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Alabama’, the exceptionally moving new album single from HAV, featuring the award-winning Scots singer Iona Fyfe…a beckoning beacon of light for their new album.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Karen Dalton’s studio album “In My Own Time”, The Breath release two stirring tracks: ‘Something On Your Mind’ along with an accompanying video and ‘Remembering Mountains’, a song she wrote but never released.

Cambridge-based post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights share video for “Under The Waves”, a heavy dose of psych-tinged folk-rock tackling the effects of the climate crisis on the oceans.

Watch the video for Echoes, the new single from Nordic songstress Ida Wenøe taken from her forthcoming third album. Delivered in two parts it’s totally outstanding…hold on to our seat.