Alex Gallacher

Some duets just sound like they were meant to be…this is one: Peter Doran is joined by Haley Heynderickx to perform Blue Mountains from his new album Voices…it really doesn’t get much better.

Watch part one of a short film on the making of Ulster trio TRÚ’s debut album ‘No Fixed Abode’. It also features Tommy Sands performing ‘County Down’ which TRÚ cover in their own unique and magical way.

Our Song of the Day comes from guitarist and composer Cameron Knowler with ‘Puerto Suelo’, the lead track from his forthcoming debut solo album Places of Consequence.

Featuring TRÚ, Clare Sands, Dorothea Paas, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Johanna Samuels, Bryan Away, Marina Allen, Damien Jurado, David John Morris, Elephant Micah, Dana Sipos, Joanna Newsom.

Featuring Erlend Apneseth Trio, Lisa Knapp, TEYR, Trio Tekke, Peach/Skeoch, Alasdair Roberts, Adam Holmes, Gnoss, Sarah-Jane Summers and Juhani Silvola, Tim Eriksen, Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich, Sutari, Scott Hutchison & James Yorkston, We Are Muffy and more.

This week’s Folk Show features M G Boulter, TEYR, Honey And The Bear, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, Declan O’Rourke, Atlantic Arc, Rhiannon Giddens, Graham Rorie, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Amythyst Kiah, The Magpies, Allison Russell, Dana Sipos, Courtney Marie Andrews, Ceitidh Mac, M. Cambridge, Staran & more.

Watch ‘Maiden’s Call’, the exquisitely intense new single from Cambridge-based post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights who return after an eight-year hiatus. Taken from their forthcoming new album Burials.

Jinnwoo’s new single ‘Milk’ is a first taster of his new album due late 2021 – it’s a dystopian sea shanty fairground ride that’s blissful in all its curious wonder.

Anglo-Irish folk group The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return with a moving and affecting take on the traditional ballad ‘Black is the Colour’ that is brimming with originality.

We talk to Dan Torigoe, a man who followed his dreams. The founder of Doleceola Recordings Dan travels halfway around the world from Japan to record American traditional music using the same vintage analog equipment used by Alan Lomax.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

Featuring: Waterless Hills, Sage Alyte, Arborea, Lori Goldston, Corsano, Maranha & Youngs, Rob St John, Burnt Paw, Dan Haywood with Josephine Foster & more.