In September Govanhill Baths will host the inaugural Glasgow Songwriting Festival. Organised by singer-songwriter Findlay Napier the festival is primarily a teaching festival with a ‘songwriters in the round’ style opening concert at the Glad Café.
Padraig Duggan, one of the founders of Irish group Clannad has died at the age of 67. He had been a member of Clannad for 40 years, starting way back in 1970 where it all began at Leo’s Tavern in Donegal. We take a look back at their early years.
Twenty-three years on from their debut album, Coope Boyes & Simpson announce their tenth solo album ‘CODA: A concluding event’ and announce their farewell tour.
We have a video premiere of Leave a Map, the second single from Real Live Tigers’ most recent album “Denatured.” The video came out of an email correspondence between songwriter Tony Presley and documentary filmmaker Brad Bores.
Listen to Gerridae by Welsh Bajan singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford. The song is taken from her forthcoming double A-side single on Folkstock Records. She’s made quite an impression and will soon feature as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Lorcán Mac Mathúna’s latest album, Visionaries 1916, which is due to be released in October, honours the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising through a creative musical use of their words.
Saturday 3rd September sees the return of the London Folk Festival to Camden’s Cecil Sharp House featuring Faustus, Stick In The Wheel, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater, Long Lankin and more.
Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood collaborate on ‘Wings’ EP which, as well as original and traditional material, includes covers of Lau’s ‘Ghosts’ and New Order’s ‘Love Vigilantes’. Don’t miss their London live debut on 25th August.
Our Song of the Day comes from the Dublin-based Irish Traditional trio The Morning Tree. They perform a beautiful version of The Holland Handkerchief – a tale of love beyond the grave.
Our Song of the Day comes via a video of Lau and Anais Mitchell performing ‘Dyin’ Day’ which featured on her 2012 album ‘Young Man in America’, an album inspired by the recession and the uncertainty that it brought with it.
A tune of the day from one of the shining lights of the Dublin music scene – Skipper’s Alley. Watch them performing ‘Why She Couldn’t Drink Her Tea’ in The Parlour Bar of Whelan’s.
We have the pleasure of exclusively revealing a further track from Welsh singer-songwriter SERA. Your Joy features on her forthcoming self-released album ‘Little Girl’.
