Alex Gallacher

The Shovel Dance Collective reveal their new single and video “The Rolling Wave”, a stunning and beautifully moving rendition of a traditional Irish song and a final preview of their forthcoming album ‘The Shovel Dance’.

London-based folk band Club Débris deliver a Quebecois-style drop of the pure, featuring Maisie Greenwood, Will Allen, Duncan Menzies, Will Chamberlain, and Jess Collins. Watch them perform Marche des Élèves & Peas Breakdown, tunes that also feature on their forthcoming debut album.

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Shelley Short & David Allred, John Patrick Elliott, Remorae, Josienne Clarke & Mary Ann Kennedy, Dorothy Carter, Nuala Kennedy & Eamon O’Leary, The Wilderness Yet and more.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring music from The Rheingans Sisters, David Grubb, Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman, Jacken Elswyth, Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Jack Bunch, AJ Woods, John Patrick Elliott, and Myles O’Reilly.

Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Start Close In’, watch The Rheingans Sisters’ video for their new single ‘Drink Up’, which sums up “what it feels like to live in this late – but never seeming to end! – capitalist era.”

Nadia Reid signs with Chrysalis Records and shares her powerful new single, Changed Unchained, marking the closing of a chapter as she embraces a fuller sound. Watch the accompanying video by Shea McCrystal.

Following their highly acclaimed 2022 album “Ink Of The Rosy Morning”, UK-based folk duo Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage return this month with their 4th full-length album In The Dark We Grow. Watch the accompanying video to their vibrant new single “The Youngest Sailor”.

East Anglian folk duo Honey & The Bear deliver a beautiful cover of Sandy Denny’s timeless classic ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes’. The accompanying video was filmed before the duo’s show at Folkeast 2024 in the gorgeous landscape of The Glemham Hall Estate.

John Spillane announces a hugely ambitious concept album – a two-hour Gaelic folk opera ‘Fíoruisce – The Legend of the Lough’ and shares the first track and video, ‘Réamhcheol/Overture’, featuring Niamh Farrell and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin.

Alasdair Roberts’ book of collected lyrics, Library of Aethers, is out now, and he also kicks off a collaborative UK tour this month with Scottish piper and traditional singer Donald WG Lindsay.

A nautical-themed Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Lisa Knapp, Jolie Holland, Oisin Leech, Georgia Shackleton, Louis Killen, Sea Song Sessions, Rhiannon Giddens, Bellowhead, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy, Richard Thompson, Ben Nicholls & Nadine Shah, Shovel Dance Collective, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Frankie Archer and Robin Williamson.

Jolie Holland shares provocative new video for ‘Feet on the Ground’ – “A piece of pure love and art…made by the astounding duo of Corinne Loperfido and Jordan Mose – Clowns Against Human Supremacy (NSFW).