Alex Gallacher

Spell Songs announce ‘Gifts of Light’, a live record produced during their 2022 Spring tour at Birmingham Symphony Hall and within the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum in 2021. Taken from the album, listen to Heartwood.

Watch Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana’s live performance at Other Voices Cardigan Festival which took place over the weekend. She included her latest single ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, a traditional ballad from the English-Scottish borders.

Banjo player and singer Nora Brown and old-time fiddle player Stephanie Coleman performed a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR recently. They included a couple of tracks from their new EP, Lady of the Lake, and “Across the Rocky Mountain”/”The Old Blue Bonnet”.

We go crate digging on the latest Monday Morning Brew featuring Olla Belle Reed. J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers, Kitsos Harisiadis, Richard Williams, George Deligeorge, Washington Phillips, Joel and Odell Thompson, Henry Thomas, Etta Baker & Cora Phillips, Bookmiller Shannon and more.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Katherine Priddy, Jenny Sturgeon, Ben Nicholls & Kris Drever, Karine Polwart, Oisin Leech, Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain, Honey And The Bear, Cerys Hafana, Chris Brain, Clare Sands, Andy Skellam, Melrose Quartet, Matt McGinn and more.

Watch the video for Andy Skellam’s new single ‘Bluebird’ – it ranks among his best, and the chorus is inspired by Charles Bukowski’s poem of the same name. The video, filmed in Bristol, was directed by Daisy Moseley, who perfectly captures the song’s mood.

Birmingham-based singer/songwriter Katherine Priddy announces her sophomore album, The Pendulum Swing, and shares her first single, ‘First House on the Left’…It might just be another terraced cottage to passersby, but to those who’ve called it home, it’s everything.

Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, the stunning new single from Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana who is performing at Other Voices Cardigan Festival this weekend.

Liverpudlian artist Laura J Martin shares her video for her new single ‘Counting Time’ – enchanting, quirky, melodic avant-pop, inspired by NYC minimalism’s biggest pinups: Arthur Russell and Philip Glass.

All the Bees is the exciting and highly anticipated new collaboration and debut album from Kirsty McGee and Gitika Partington. Listen to their lead single ‘Wildflowers’, a song steeped in the forgotten language of countryside folklore.

Judson Claiborne unveils their stunning new video for ‘Tears in the Pocket’. The animation was created by Kathleen Judge who brings the song to life in the most beautiful way possible.

Marry Waterson and Adrian Crowley announce their first collaborative album ‘Cuckoo Storm’ and share lead single ‘Undear Sphere’ – a song whose subtle power makes it so overwhelmingly beautiful.