Alex Gallacher

Ahead of her biggest UK tour for over 4 years. Charlie Dore is releasing a new single – watch the accompanying video for the radio edit remix of ‘Blowing Leaves’, taken from her album ‘Like Animals’.

Owen Spafford announces live installation ‘Welcome Here, Kind Stranger’, exploring memory, culture and community through the traditional music Session. It features Owen, Sam Amidon, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Méabh Begley, Mikey Kenney, Louis Campbell and artist Annabelle Blott.

Galway artist Me Auld Flower returns with his new single ‘An Unholy Amount’ that delves into the duality of life, exploring the contrasting aspects of existence with an intricately woven musical arrangement.

To celebrate the release of ‘Real to Reel : Garech Browne & Claddagh Records’, watch the animated video for ‘One Night in Luggala’ created by Bárbara Oliveira & Cian Hughes -, taken from the Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts album Tin Whistles (Claddagh Records, 1974).

Watch the accompanying video to “Homecoming”, the stunning debut single from Rooftop Assembly, a grime & folk fusion project from London that formed playing rooftop concerts during lockdown. This is music to be celebrated.

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring John Renbourn, Allysen Callery, Iona Zajac, Brigid Mae Power, Aoife Nessa Frances, Junior Brother, Rachel Sermanni, Sweet Baboo, Emma Tricca, Ivan Moult, Katy J Pearson & Broadside Hacks, Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, Clara Mann and more.

New doom folk band ØXN, featuring Radie Peat (Lankum), John’ Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler (Percolator), and Katie Kim announce debut album CYRM and two live dates at The Sugar Club, Dublin – Presented by Enthusiastic Eunuch and Foggy Notions.

Karine Polwart is back in the company of award-winning composer and sound designer Pippa Murphy and pianist and composer Dave Milligan on ‘Seek The Light’, a new EP and BBC Radio 4 series that combines a love of science, history, folklore and the natural world. 

Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi and East London’s Stick In The Wheel deliver a visceral remix of What Will Become of England, marking a repeated mood present up and down the land. An antidote to, or rather an affirmation of, the state of England’s politics.

Taken from folk singing legend Alice Gerrard’s forthcoming new album “Sun to Sun”, listen to “You and Me”, a simple, refreshing reminder to treasure the love in our lives. She is joined by Reed Stutz, Tatiana Hargreaves, DaShawn Hickman and Hasee Ciacco.

Edinburgh-based folk/old-time quartet Wayward Jane, featuring Dan Abrahams, Sam Gillespie, Rachel Petyt and Michael Starkey, announce their third album ‘The Flood’, and premiere their video for ‘Crossing Over Water’, a song Rachel wrote in response to hearing about migrants trying to move to safer places.

Canadian singer-songwriter Jerry Leger announces his new studio album ‘Donlands’ and shares the single and video “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” – “The video was filmed at the Imperial Pub in Toronto, which has been there since the ’40s and is one of the few remaining pubs of its type in the big city.”