Alex Gallacher

Ahead of the release of Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys new album ‘The Wishing Tree’ this Friday, watch their video for Nature’s Law which is also our Song of the Day.

Today sees the release of a new single from Danny George Wilson. ‘Heaven For Hiding’, finds him further exploring his colourful new direction. Quirky, experimental and totally infectious.

Our latest Folk Show features Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, Brigid Mae Power, The Norfolk Broads, John Francis Flynn, Skipper’s Alley, Aidan O’Rourke, Salt House, Duncan Lloyd, Withered Hand, Ewan McClennan, LAU, Naragonia, Emily Portman, Martin Simpson, Dan Brown and Rosa Zajac.

Following his highly acclaimed 2019 album ‘Where the White Roses Grow’, Yorkshire’s Serious Sam Barrett returns next month with an album of British Folk songs titled ‘The Seeds of Love’. Watch his new video for The Waggoner, a Tyneside ballad of the Great Northern Coalfield.

Samana is the work of Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett. A project that is both poetry, music, striking photography and fine art. Watch their live recording of Begin Again, a song about the absence of a love through an unforeseen death. A stunning and spellbinding performance.

From our KLOF series where the rule book goes out the window…Andre Tanker, Mibiri Young Stars, Craig Fortnam, Brigid Mae Power, Ashley Shadow, Molly Linen, Tiger Saw, P.G. Six and lots more.

In follow-up to debut album Hemet, Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan releases single ‘Happy Again’, produced by Alex Borwick…as substantially poignant as anything we’ve heard from her so far, overflowing with affirmation and endeavour. 

Taken from his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’, watch John Francis Flynn performing ‘Lovely Joan’ live at Connolly’s of Leap. The video, by Director extraordinaire Peadar Ó Goill, cleverly pairs with the story of a local man’s friendship with a cat. Exceptional on all fronts.

Our Song of the Day comes from the super-talented Fay Hield with “When She Comes”, taken from her latest solo album ‘Wrackline’ which she tours next month. Wrackline is a world lovingly crafted by Hield, with its own logic, its own depths of meaning.

Featuring Aidan O’Rourke, Alasdair Roberts and Robin Robertson, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Rachel Newton, Joe Heaney, Lankum, John Francis Flynn, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Dàimh, Tim Dennehy, Martin Simpson, Seamus Heaney & Liam O’Flynn, The Boys of the Lough, Skipper’s Alley, The Bonny Men & Rónán Ó Snodaigh.

Martin Simpson is back on the road with a very long list of tour dates. This year also marks the 20th Anniversary of Martin’s album “The Bramble Briar”, an English folk gem if ever there was one. He has also written a new song for Hen Harrier Day titled ‘Sky Dancer’.

The Teesside Troubadour Vin Garbutt who passed away in 2017 at the age of 69, is to have his autobiography published. Written in the years before his death, “this is Vin’s touching, funny and life-affirming story in his own words”. The book is available to pre-order now.