Alex Gallacher

Our Song of the Day is from Scots singer Amy Leach and Highland guitarist Alasdair Paul. Listen to them performing The Twa Brothers – they present their folk songs beautifully and simply, allowing them to speak for themselves.

Taken from his forthcoming ‘Short Stories’ album, Sean Taylor delivers the ice on ‘Be Cool’…a smokey jazz number that nods to Tom Waits, the Beat Generation, Miles and Coltrane.

Ten Steps is the highly anticipated collaborative album from Brooklyn, NY and Tokyo/Black Country Pathfinders Max ZT & Dan Whitehouse. From that album, watch them performing ‘Shizuka’, which translates as ‘quiet’ – it is also our Song of the Day.

Watch Josh Okeefe performing Sam Hall at Foxy John’s in Co. Kerry – this half bar and half hardware store will also be one of the venues on his upcoming tour of the Emerald Isle.

Simon Jones, of the acclaimed experimental folk song and storytelling trio Harp & a Monkey, shares his new single and video ‘Call off the Dawn’ – “…I’m just trying to tap into my own internal imagery and hoping that the results resonate for others.”

Primary Wave are releasing A Song For Leon: A Tribute To Leon Russell, featuring Nathaniel Rateliff, Pixies, U.S. Girls, Orville Peck, Hiss Golden Messenger and more. Listen to Margo Price covering ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’.

Taken from her new album ‘Sink to Swim’, American-born London-based musician Erin K has shared a live session of her performing Breathe with a catchy opening that’s hard to resist; it’s an exceptional performance.

Watch Lisa O’Neill’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring songs from ‘All of This Is Chance’ and a new song – ‘When cash was King’ – which reflects on how those without a bank account or a mobile phone are sometimes unable to purchase basic essentials.

Bristol-based singer Izzy Auty-Dawe drops her most personal single tomorrow; titled ‘Front Row Seats’, it’s a song about watching a friend helplessly deteriorate before your eyes…watch the accompanying video.

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy shares his new single ‘Crazy Blue Bells’, for which Director Ray Tintori presents a dazzling visual accompaniment.

Combining music from both of their backgrounds, on their Cove EP, Iona Lane and Ranjana Ghatak create a beautiful soup of ethereal goodness. Listen to their lead single, ‘Vaishnava Jana To / Quiet Joys of Brotherhood.’

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew ft Rachel Sermanni, FRMR, Sairie, Lisa Knapp, Elspeth Anne, Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi, ØXN, Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz, Archie Fisher, The Owl Service, Jack Sharp, John Francis Flynn, Martin Carthy, Ye Vagabonds, Dick Gaughan & more.