Next month sees the fourth Button Boxes and Moothies festival of Free Reed Instruments at the University of Aberdeen featuring a host of artists including John Spiers, Alistair Anderson, Will Pound, Mary MacNamara and more.
Skinny Lister’s incredible year continues apace with the release of the festively atmospheric single ‘Six Whiskies’ out 27th November 2015. Watch the video premiere here on Folk Radio UK.
The ever inventive Will Varley has just unveiled his new video for Talking Cat Blues. With feline tongue placed firmly in cheek it’s observational blues with a few punches thrown in.
Watch Scotland’s original acid crofters Shooglenifty performing ‘The High Road to Jodhpur’ which is where they are performing this weekend. Don’t miss their album tour and 25th Anniversary celebration at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay!
Afro Celt Sound System announce new studio album featuring founding members and guests including members of Shooglenifty, the piping, vocals and rapping of Gaelic language activist Griorgair and Amagh flutist and singer Rioghnach Connolly.
Listen to ‘The Great Divide’, the debut single from Edgar Wallace Exchange, a newly formed London-based alt-folk quartet, produced by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Ben Walker. Don’t miss their upcoming live dates!
RANT, featuring four of Scotland’s finest fiddle players, are on tour (including their first London gig) and announce album preview at Celtic Connections with two special guests, Julie Fowlis and Ewan McLennan.
Fiddle player and BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician Of The Year Sam Sweeney has been named as the inaugural Artistic Director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s (EFDSS) new National Youth Folk Ensemble.
BBC Radio 2’s annual search for the best young folk musicians is now underway. Previous winners of the Young Folk Award include Bella Hardy, Jackie Oates, Lucy Ward and The Mischa McPherson Trio. Get those entries in!
John McSherry, Dónal O’Connor & Seán Óg Graham release their new album ‘Ulaid’ tomorrow. Watch them performing ‘Roll it there Roisín’ live on FleadhTV on TG4.
Something to brighten up your day from Tunna, a four-piece progressive folk music band from Dunkeld, Perthshire. Who comine traditional Scottish tunes with everything from Funk to Samba. Watch the video for their new (free download) single.
Scottish singer songwriter Dean Owens announces the release of his new single ‘Up On The Hill’, watch the new video for it here and don’t miss his upcoming tour dates including London’s Folk & Roots Festival.
