Alex Gallacher

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Ngozi Family, Shirley Collins, Damien Jurado, Marion Williams, Karen Dalton, Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak, Avita Raz, Joseph Decosimo, Kikagaku Moyo, Clem Snide, Marie Bashiru, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, The Hermit, Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes and lots more

Ten months ago, Bill Callahan released YTI​⅃​A​Ǝ​Я on Drag City Records and he has just released his first music video for the album – Last One At The Party – the video shows us a man way out there on an island of his own that sits right at the heart of humanity. 

Northumberland singer-songwriter Frankie Archer has won the Christian Raphael Prize 2023. Launched in 2018, the award is run in association with the Cambridge Folk Festival and previous winners include Mishra, Katherine Priddy, Nick Hart and, in 2022, Angeline Morrison.

Our latest Folk Show features Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly, The Scrub Jay Orchestra, Cup O Joe, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Eliza Carthy Trio, Jon Wilks, LAU, Norman Paterson, Seth Lakeman and more.

Watch the beautiful video for El Hara, the lead single from Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary’s debut album ‘So Far We Have Come’. Their UK Tour kicks off this month, starting at Sidmouth Folk Festival. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to catch them live.

American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore announces her new album ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ and shares the video for lead single “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me”, featuring two of her closest friends — songwriter Meg Baird and accordionist composer Walt McClements.

“Sounding like a UFO slowly sinking into a peat bog” – Paradise of Bachelors announce new band project ‘Setting’ featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund. Listen to their lead single ‘Zoetropics’ from their debut album ‘Shone A Rainbow Light On’

Watch the video for Dublin City Bells, the new single from contemporary folk artist Lewis Barfoot, taken from her forthcoming second album, Home, due in November 2023. She is on tour in the UK in September.

Last month, Wren Hinds released his new album, Don’t Die in the Bundu, and in our album review, it was described as a timeless beauty. Listen to the album in full and enjoy Wren’s personal Track by Track guide.

Kent-born singer and multi-instrumentalist Will Page of Noble Jacks premieres his new single celebrating the Kent-based festival Broadstairs Folk Week that kicks off on August 12th. He says: “I hope I can inspire more young musicians to take up folk.”

This Sunday, folksinging legend Shirley Collins is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She will be sharing eight tracks, a book and a luxury item that she would take with her if cast away to a desert island.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew ft. Sinead O’Connor, Seth Lakeman, Rachel Sermanni, Emma Gatrill, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Cormac Begley, Martin Simpson, Lonesome Ace Stringband, Jake Blount, Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, Hot Vultures, Clifton Hicks, Anna & Elizabeth, Mama’s Broke & more.