Alex Gallacher

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew Playlist, an uplifting offering featuring Adam Finchler, Damien Jurado, Project Gemini, Anna Tivel, Bonny Light Horseman, Timothy Monger, Arlt, Will Knox, The Van Pelt, KIDDUSI, Bananagun, Bob Dylan and more.

Listen to our latest Mixtape featuring Alice Boyd, Don Leisure & Carwyn Ellis, The Innocence Mission, Fionn Regan, Andrew Tuttle/Michael Chapman, Constant Follower, Nev Clay, Richard Dawson, Kevin Fowley, Jennifer Castle, Lee Baggett, Anna Butterss, Angeline Morrison, Glåsbird & more.

Constant Follower, led by singer-songwriter Stephen McAll, shares a powerfully moving video directed by Martin J Pickering for the song ‘Patient Has Own Supply’, which tells a deeply personal story rooted in McAll’s teenage years.

Oysterband, Levellers, Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Jim Moray, Moonlight Benjamin, The Henry Girls, Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, Melrose Quartet, and 9Bach are just some of the first wave of artists announced for Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2025.

Under his pseudonym of Glåsbird, British artist and composer Harry Towell’s exploration of remote geographic locations returns closer to home as he explores the low-lying fenlands surrounding his sleepy Lincolnshire village.

Clara Mann has shared ‘Til I Come Around, a song “about intimacy, in every sense.” The new single, also our Song of the Day, is taken from her forthcoming debut album, ‘Rift’ (7th March 2025—via state51). Watch the accompanying visualiser.

Ahead of her UK tour this month, listen to The Old Bog Road, the new single from Lewis Barfoot and the title track of her forthcoming EP, a collection of a capella folk songs from Ireland and Britain.

Listen to our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring D’En Haut, Jaimie Branch, The Last Poets, Alice Coltrane, Cocanha, Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff, Cynefin, Niamh Regan, Chris Brain, Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker, Joshua Burnside, Turner Cody and more.

To mark the release of his new album A Terrible Beauty, Christy Moore has shared a video (his second only music video) for his new single ‘Boy In The Wild’, directed and produced by Ellius Grace and starring Liam Cunningham and Ollie West.

With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.

To mark the fortieth anniversary of their artistic relationship, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band will tour the UK in what will be not only a celebration but also a farewell, the last time they will undertake such an outing.

A special hauntological Mixtape to mark Samhain. Includes a special Shirley Collins feature, plus music from Folklore Tapes, Burd Ellen, Craven, Penelope Trappes, Bridget Hayden, Elspeth Anne, Benedict Drew, Laura Cannell, Arianne Churchman, Ian Humberstone, David Chatton Baker, Milkweed, Mary Arches, Pefkin and more.