Alex Gallacher

Clara Mann has shared ‘Til I Come Around, a song “about intimacy, in every sense.” The new single, also our Song of the Day, is taken from her forthcoming debut album, ‘Rift’ (7th March 2025—via state51). Watch the accompanying visualiser.

Ahead of her UK tour this month, listen to The Old Bog Road, the new single from Lewis Barfoot and the title track of her forthcoming EP, a collection of a capella folk songs from Ireland and Britain.

Listen to our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring D’En Haut, Jaimie Branch, The Last Poets, Alice Coltrane, Cocanha, Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff, Cynefin, Niamh Regan, Chris Brain, Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker, Joshua Burnside, Turner Cody and more.

To mark the release of his new album A Terrible Beauty, Christy Moore has shared a video (his second only music video) for his new single ‘Boy In The Wild’, directed and produced by Ellius Grace and starring Liam Cunningham and Ollie West.

With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.

To mark the fortieth anniversary of their artistic relationship, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band will tour the UK in what will be not only a celebration but also a farewell, the last time they will undertake such an outing.

A special hauntological Mixtape to mark Samhain. Includes a special Shirley Collins feature, plus music from Folklore Tapes, Burd Ellen, Craven, Penelope Trappes, Bridget Hayden, Elspeth Anne, Benedict Drew, Laura Cannell, Arianne Churchman, Ian Humberstone, David Chatton Baker, Milkweed, Mary Arches, Pefkin and more.

Perfectly timed for Samhain/Halloween, watch the video for ‘Sleep’, the new single from Penelope Trappes. Directed by Agnes Haus, it features Maxine Peake and Kate Dickie… an unscripted pseudo-horror film about sleep paralysis at night.

Robert Macfarlane & Nick Hayes have collaborated on another modern Broadside Ballad which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Cynefin – Welsh folk singer and cultural historian Owen Shiers. Taken from his forthcoming album Shimli, listen to his latest single, ‘Helmi’, which presents the words of an obscure cân (a poem or song) by farmer Evan Jones.

Richard Dawson announces his new album ‘End of the Middle’ and shares his lead single ‘Polytunnel’, the video for which was filmed at several allotments…a beautiful tribute to these communal, alternative spaces.

On 26th October, Jerron Paxton made an impressive BBC Television debut on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’. He was interviewed by Jools and performed two songs, including ‘What’s Gonna Become of Me’, from his new album on Smithsonian Folkways, ‘Things Done Changed’.