Taken from his new album True North and recorded live on Tyne and Wear’s highest point, Currock Hill, watch Johnny Campbell performing ‘Here’s the Tender Coming / The Keel Row’ with Northumbrian duo The Brothers Gillespie.
Edinburgh Folk Club is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in style with a jam-packed programme of 38 events to celebrate their landmark anniversary, including Jenn Butterworth and Laura-Beth Salter, John Kirkpatrick, Gordie Tentrees, Adam Holmes, The Poozies and more.
Today marks the release of Georgia Shackleton’s solo debut album ‘Harry’s Seagull’ – one of the year’s freshest and most appealing folk albums. Watch her video for What Will Become of England, Harry Cox’s social commentary that sadly doesn’t lose relevance.
Watch guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo’s Tiny Desk concert…Hailing from the windy Texas Panhandle, he recently announced a European tour for February 2024, including dates in London, Glasgow, Manchester & Newcastle.
Watch Buck Curran performing ‘River Unto Sea’ live, an acoustic instrumental track inspired by Ireland and Maine that appeared on his 2016 debut solo album Immortal Light. He’s accompanied here by David James Logan on bass who also filmed the session (aided by the wonderful Adele H).
Listen to ‘Way Out West’, the debut single from Holly Blackshaw, taken from her upcoming EP. Inspired by her move from Hull, East Yorkshire, to rural Mid-Wales, from the flatlands to the hills…it’s also our Song of the Day.
Blair Dunlop announces his new album ‘Let’s Get Out of the Rain’ and a supporting 25-date UK Tour. Taken from the album, watch him performing the superb ‘Midday Mass’ – also our Song of the Day.
Sarah Gillespie has shared a stop-motion film, created by Fini Bearman, for her new single “Molly of the Salt Sea”. The arrangements are playful and exploratory, over which Gillespie’s vocals unravel an equally engaging storytelling narrative.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy shares the video/single “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You”, the title track of his latest album that doesn’t appear on the album…instead it stands marvellously on its own. Watch the accompanying video directed by Adam Laity.
We get an insight into the highly anticipated, revamped theatrical production of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, which is set to open at the Lyric Theatre in February 2024, five years after its sold-out run at the National Theatre.
Taken from Brulée, the second in a triptych of albums from cabane (the collective project conceived by the Belgian musician and photographer thomas jean henri), watch the lyric video for ‘dead song Pt.1’, the beautiful new single featuring Sam Genders.
Harp, the new musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, have shared their new video for “A Fountain”, a song which recalls a heartbreak that Smith suffered and which finds him setting forth on his galleon…
