Fegan’s passion and knowledge of Irish traditional music played by members of the Irish Travelling community is remarkable. This is a captivating documentary, through interviews and supported archive footage he has brought to life the stuff of legend.
Following on from the razor sharp polemics of ‘The City Nowadays’, L.A. Salami releases his new Double-A side single, ‘I Wear This Because Life Is War’ / ‘Day To Day’. Listen now.
Calais Field Music is a project I recently came across which was set up by Isolda Heavey to help the refugees in the ‘Jungle’ camp at Calais. Five albums have been released to date featuring field recordings of different musicians from the camp. Solidarity not charity.
This week Folk Radio UK heads to WOMAD 2016 – 90 Artists from 50 Countries will be performing at this year’s festival so we are going to be thoroughly spoilt for choice, not just with the music but also the art, dance, discussion, activity, food and drink from fifty nations spanning six continents.
Yorkston Thorne Khan head out on a tour of Ireland in August with support from Seamus Fogarty and they also play this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Watch their recent performance of Sufi Song at the Tolbooth in Stirling.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
We head back to the Embankment, Tallaght, Co.Dublin 1976 for today’s Song of the Day, a great horse-racing classic – ‘Plains of Kildare’. It’s performed by Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.
Watch the new video from Marina Florance for Two People, her new single. Simple in concept, with still-photos of people of all ages dancing, the video provides a welcome dose of nostalgia and draws you in with it’s universally appealing theme.
Husband and wife duo The Handsome Family share new video for Gold, their latest single from their forthcoming 10th studio album Unseen, due for release on 16 September via Loose.
Our Song of the Day comes via Irish singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power with It’s Clearing Now. We also have a lovely home-recording video of her performing ‘As I Roved Out’, a song that I’ve long associated with Andy Irvine. Don’t miss her UK Tour Dates.
Watch Andrew Bird performing alongside John C. Reilly and Tom Brosseau. Mixing the old with the new they perform an old traditional song from The Carter Family repertoire and a track from his ‘Are You Serious’ album.
Tompkins Square announce the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem compiled by hardcore record collectors Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice. It features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard.
