KLOF Staff

The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards nominations open today. Performances confirmed for the ceremony include Peatbog Faeries, Joy Dunlop, Mànran, Amy Laurenson Trio, Duncan Chisholm, Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan. There will also be a tribute to Robbie Shepherd.

Laura Veirs announces her new album Phone Orphans, which involved sorting through 900 voice memos – These songs have been hiding out on my phone…They are about my family, my lovers and me. I recorded them alone in my living room into my voice memo app.

Dylan LeBlanc has announced his new album ‘Coyote’, described as semi-autobiographical and a concept album, chronicling a man who lives dangerously, always on the edge. Watch the accompanying lyric video for his lead single, ‘No Promises Broken’.

Australian folk quartet The Heart Collectors share their video for ‘Sirius B’, a transcendent Folk-Pop ballad combining the hopeful discovery of love with nuanced and wistful mysteries.

Singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid will be kicking off a 3-month, 59-show autumn USA and UK tour with high-profile hometown shows in both West Cornwall, England, where she’s lived since 2007, and Chicago, where she spent most of her childhood.

The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards will return to Dundee on Saturday, 2nd December. There will be performances from Peatbog Faeries, Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan, Duncan Chisholm and more on the night.

Myles O’Reilly recalls some of the magical moments experienced with Rónán Ó Snodaigh while making their new album, ‘The Beautiful Road’, at a “quaint cabin, isolated from the world’s noise…where boundaries between reality and imagination blur”.

Folk In The Park have announced the return of their one-day festival to Sutton this summer featuring Nick Lowe, Del Amitri, Iain Matthews, Danny and the Champions of the World, Hannah White, Roseanne Reid, Matt Owens and more.

Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson and Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz announce collaborative album ‘Nothing But Green Willow’ and share lead single ‘Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies’ ft. Cara Dillon.

On Skylarks, Harp and a Monkey present a tender and poignant ode to parenthood – based around the narrative of a father taking his children on a walk over the West Pennine Moors.

Shrewsbury Folk Festival reveal the final lineup details for this year’s festival including Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Eddi Reader, Simeon Hammond Dallas, Capercaillie, Katie Spencer, O’Hooley & Tidow and more.

Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly announce their second album ‘The Beautiful Road’, a soulful blend of folk, traditional, and ambient crossover, to be released via Claddagh Records on July 28th. Watch the video for their first song ‘Níl Aon Easpa Orm’, filmed in the sacred hills of Loughcrew, Co. Meath.