KLOF Staff

Watch the accompanying video to ‘Disco’, the new single from Scotland’s six-piece funky folk band HEISK – taken from their self-titled debut that showcases their festival party vibe and girl power.

Light in the attic celebrates the 50th anniversary of Karen Dalton’s masterpiece, In my own time, with definitive, bonus-filled reissues. Includes previously-unreleased live performance audio, including Live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival (1971), plus alternate studio takes, rarely seen photos and more.

Dublin fiddle player Aidan Connolly has released a new solo album titled ‘The Portland Bow’ on Clare’s Raelach Records also featuring Ruairí McGorman on Greek bouzouki and Jack Talty on piano.

Listen to “When You’re Weary” the new single from Irish singer Eva Coyle. Written by noted West Cork musician Bean Dolan, Eva arranged the song, deftly incorporating elements of Irish traditional music into this gorgeous, waltz-time ballad.

Quiet Lights returns to Cork this month (18-21 Nov), featuring live shows from Lisa O’Neill, Junior Brother, The Lost Brothers, Niamh Regan, Maija Sofia, Joshua Burnside, Ichigo Aoba & many many more

Josephine Foster’s new album “Godmother” – part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk – finds her looking towards new horizons as she marries a myriad of previous musical escapades with electronic experiments. Listen to lead single ‘Guardian Angel’.

Folk pop auteur Dana Gavanski returns with a brand new single today and a glimpse of what’s to come with her new album due next year. It’s called Letting Go.

Having opened for Spiers and Boden on their extensive Fallow Ground Tour, the New Year brings a new tour for Lady Nade as she tours her third album ‘Willing’.

Sophia Djebel Rose, France’s priestess of psychedelic folk returns in March with a new album. Taken from Métempsycose, watch her video for Vénus…”if Botticcelli’s Venus could sing, this is what she would sing”.

The fourth SEALL Festival of Small Halls kicks off officially on Friday 19 November featuring Mary Macmaster (Poozies), Angus MacKenzie (Daìmh), Ewan Robertson (Breabach), Seán Gray (Paul McKenna Band), Megan Henderson (Breabach), Inge Thomson, Marie Fielding and Mairearad Green.

Glasgow-based Gaelic singer Deirdre Graham launches Gaelic Song Stories, a six part podcast series featuring notable Gaelic singers Margaret Bennett, Kirsteen Graham, Rachel Newton and Gillebride MacMillan, as well as antiquarian bookseller Gilleasbuig Ferguson.

Described by Dónal Lunny as ‘one of the most important traditional singers to emerge out of Ireland in the last decade’, this month, two times BBC Folk Award-winning Dublin singer and musician Daoirí Farrell heads out on tour across the UK.