Alex Gallacher

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Toby Hay, Quinie, Aidan O’Rourke, Appendix Out, Jackie Oates, Joseph Allred, James Yorkston, Iona Lane, Trembling Bells, Eight Point Star, Remorae, Pelt and more.

Watch the new video from Glasgow-based musician Quinie for her new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’, a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

Watch Alex Rex’s ‘Boss Morris’ video, a tribute to his favourite all-female Morris dancing side, the titular Boss Morris – energy, colour, self-invention and profound knowledge of the tradition all collapsed into something that has reinvigorated the form.

After 15 years of performing together, the much-loved Yorkshire folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow say farewell for now in order to explore other adventures that are beckoning to them. Don’t miss their final tour of their favourite venues.

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson’s long-awaited second album, Safe Travels, is released on 9th May. Watch them performing the heartfelt ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ live.

Listen to “Widdershins” an ornately decorated folk epistle that shares an existential fundament of Faun Fables’ worldview. Their new album, Counterclockwise, drops on May 30th.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her new album, Second Circle The Horizon. Listen to her first album single, “I Saw a Heron” – “I wanted to capture the feeling of walking outside and encountering organic nature sounds”

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lead single and video ‘Celyn’.

Ty Segall shares the title track of his new album Possession, with lyrics by longtime collaborator and filmmaker Matt Yoka. They “each acts as writer and editor as they throw the conceptual ball back and forth translating general vibes and feels into wicked lyric imagery.”

Legendary guitarist and folk icon Wizz Jones has died. He passed away on Sunday morning (April 27th) at Trinity Hospice, two days after his 86th birthday.

Watch Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts performing ‘Màiri nighean Dòmhnaill’, the opening track of their new album ‘Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia’, out now on Drag City.

Another Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney, Laura Baird, Mapache, The Woods Band, Tren Brothers, Nive Nielsen, Natalie Jane Hill, Lone Messa, Gary Higgins, Mibiri Young Stars and more.