FolkEast is on course to return this August ft. Afro Celt Sound System, The Young’Uns, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Daoiri Farrell, Drever, McCusker, Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Shee, Gigspanner Big band, Topette!!, Trials of Cato and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cork-born fearless feisty fiddler, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Clare Sands. She is joined by Steve Cooney and Tommy Sands on her outstanding new single ‘Abair Liom do Rúin (Tell Me Your Secrets)’.
Recorded at night in Highnam Woods, Gloucestershire, ‘Nightingale Soul Call’ expresses a suspended moment in time in which Adrian Freedman’s Shakuhachi flute met the nightingale, and together with Sam Lee on the shruti box, a meeting of kindred souls took place.
The pioneering Folkatron Sessions return on 2nd July with their second EP Home No More. Watch their accompanying video for ‘An Bonnán Buí (The Yellow Bittern)’ inspired by Anne Briggs’ iconic solo vocal version.
Watch the video (by filmmaker Timothy Breen) for ‘Inner Smile’, the new single and joyful closing track from David John Morris’s (Red River Dialect) forthcoming solo album Monastic Love Songs.
Rodney Crowell’s 18th Studio album, Triage, is to be released on July 23, 2021. Watch the video for his first single, “Something Has To Change”, directed by filmmaker/musician Haroula Rose and shot at Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, TN.
Watch ‘Black Peonies’, the latest single from Alex Rex featuring acclaimed Canadian singer/songwriter and one half of Kacy & Clayton, Kacy Lee Anderson. The video was shot in Glasgow and directed by acclaimed musician, filmmaker and choreographer Daisy JT Smith.
Hailing from the Armagh-Monaghan border, Dani Larkin is tipped as Ireland’s most exciting new alt-folk artist – watch her new video for ‘The Red (Maca’s Return)’, taken from her highly anticipated debut album ‘Notes For A Maiden Warrior’.
Towersey Festival announce plans for a smaller 2021 event featuring This is the Kit, Steeleye Span, Show of Hands, Eddi Reader, Gruff Rhys, Edward II, Ferris and Sylvester, John Spiers & Jackie Oates, Merry Hell, Tim Edey and more.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Adam Holmes returns with his eagerly awaited fourth album, Dreamweaver. Watch the accompanying video for his first single ‘Nature’, a song about the immovable force of time.
Following a stunning gig at the Natural History Museum, the Spell Songs Ensemble announce a new album ‘The Lost Words: Spell Songs Volume II’ for November 2021 and Live Dates for 2022
Our Song of the Day is “The Green Chapel”, the first single from ‘The Old Fabled River’, the forthcoming new album from Alasdair Roberts og Völvur, the initiative of Norweigian fiddler Hans Kjorstad which features five additional Scandinavian musicians.
