Alex Gallacher

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.

Nancy Kerr releases Tunnellers, a new 5-track EP commissioned by the British Tunnelling Society which covers tunnelling history, achievement, celebration and hardship. Marvellous stuff.

Scottish folk collective Staran share their second single and video for Balcarres, named after Balcarres Avenue in Glasgow where John Lowrie once lived. It conveys the joy of nostalgia of those memories beautifully…music to happily lose yourself in.

Featuring new music from Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino, Damien Jurado, M G Boulter, Honey And The Bear, Rachel Baiman, Anna Leone, Lizzie Reid, Joshua Burnside, Will Beeley, Declan O’Rourke, Piers Faccini and more.

Our Song of the Day is “How Did We Get Here”. It comes from Allysen Callery who is joined by friend & producer Myles Baer who she has worked with since her early days.

Our Song of the Day comes from Anna Leone with ‘Still I Wait. The accompanying video which was filmed on the Azores archipelago at an abandoned hospital is incredibly moving, as is the song in all its fragile beauty.

Featuring new music from Piers Faccini, Aoife O’Donovan featuring Kris Drever, The Brother Brothers, Black Twig Pickers, Christina Alden & Alex Patterson. Plus music from Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Punch Brothers, Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock, Dawn Landes and more.