KLOF Staff

Taken from her powerful forthcoming album ‘The Unquiet’, watch the accompanying video for Felton Lonnin, the new single from Irish singer Pauline Scanlon. It’s a Northumbrian ballad about a missing child which she sings “to honour the women and children who endured church and state systems of incarceration and separation…”

Celebrating International Women’s Day, on the video for ‘Awe Na Mná (Praise the Women)’, Clare Sands is joined by 100 women on four beaches in the four corners of Ireland, celebrating sisterhood in all its colours.

As we prepare to welcome the arrival of Spring, multi-instrumentalist Simon J Jones has a few thoughts to share about it in his new single and video ‘What To look for In Spring’, from his forthcoming solo album ‘How Things Work’.

Dervish have now announced a string of seven UK shows, including dates in Cardiff, Cambridge and London, that will feature tracks from across their extensive back catalogue, from new arrangements from their latest critically acclaimed album to firm fan favourites.

Ana Silvera shares an insight into ‘Halos’, the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘The Fabulist’. “…Frozen furrows of barren fields and the crows pecking and wheeling about the withered crops. The bright skirts of fog encircling black trees.”

Ye Vagabonds are to release their second album for Rough Trade’s River Lea label. Titled Nine Waves, the album will be released on May 13th and will be supported by a UK Tour. Watch them performing their lead single ‘Blue Is The Eye’ live.

Walton Folk Festival is returning to its usual May bank holiday slot for 2022 featuring Wildwood Kin, Polly Paulusma, Angeline Morrison, The Outside Track, Ellie Gowers and Jack Cookson.

The Gigspanner Big Band have announced a collaborative project with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, the Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the South West Coast Path. Saltlines is a Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words.

Fresh from performing two nights at the brilliant Celtic Connections, the Irish quartet The Jeremiahs have announced they will be bringing their live show to England for an eight-night tour this February 2022. Not to be missed!

Folk Radio UK have teamed up with Treadwells Bookshop for an online workshop, led by Hannah Sanders, that explores occulted meanings lurking in the shadows of the British folk song tradition.

Next month, County Galway songwriter Niamh Regan returns with the launch of her new EP ‘In the Meantime’. To celebrate the release Niamh has announced launch dates at The Grand Social, Dublin and London’s Green Note.

Taken from their forthcoming ‘Unknown’ Waters album featuring nine songs written by their favourite north eastern songwriters, Megson share the accompanying video for their cover of Chris Rea’s Road to Hell.