Charlie Parr’s new album, Last of the Better Days Ahead, is to be released on July 30, his first for Smithsonian Folkways. Watch the video for the title track.
Tom Coll, the drummer of Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC announces ‘Goitse A Thaisce (A Compilation of Irish Music – Volume One)’ featuring The Bothy Band, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Ye Vagabonds, Planxty, Lisa O’Neill, The Dubliners and more.
London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Gary Lover, the alter ego of Gareth Hoskins – singer with cult London band Tangerines, talk us through his debut album Songs of Fortune, Songs of Pain, due for release via cult label Some Other Planet records on 28th May 2021.
Aidan Moodie shares his video for ‘Old Yew’, his second single (out today), which continues his attempts to twist and distort away from what might be expected of folk song. Refreshingly original and engaging.
Watch Italian duo She Owl performing their new live version of “Paper Birds,” recorded late one night during a recent lockdown in Italy. The video showcases a new, more meditative arrangement of the song on which the striking contralto vocals of Jolanda Moletta are front and centre.
Listen to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Little Arrow’s debut 2011 album ‘Music, Masks & Poems’, released as a beautiful tribute to frontman, William Hughes, who was sadly lost to cancer in December 2018.
‘Dignity’ – a Livestream celebration of 80 years of Bob Dylan live from Dublin (Monday 24 May) is to feature Lisa Hannigan, Cinder Well, FeliSpeaks, Peter Broderick, Brigid Mae Power, Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill and more.
Following the recent release of her debut EP, Atlaness, Vicky Gray has released a music video for the lead track, Teif on da Lum…a beautiful collaboration with Shetland film-maker, JJ Jamieson.
The first-ever digital edition of Edinburgh Tradfest was a great success, reaching traditional music fans in America and Australia, as well as across Scotland and the UK.
Johanna Samuels’ debut album Excelsior! is out digitally today on Basin Rock. Arguably leaving the best to last, she’s sharing the music video for album opener “Sonny”.
Taken from Joshua Burnell’s forthcoming new EP Storm Cogs, watch the video for ‘Shelagh’s Song’, inspired by the life of Scottish singer-songwriter Shelagh McDonald, the Seventies folk singer who went missing for 30 years.
Martha Wainwright has announced her new album “Love Will Be Reborn”, her first release since 2016’s ‘Goodnight City’. Set for release on August 20th and followed by a UK Tour, she paves the way with a stunning title track single.
