With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.
To mark the fortieth anniversary of their artistic relationship, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band will tour the UK in what will be not only a celebration but also a farewell, the last time they will undertake such an outing.
Perfectly timed for Samhain/Halloween, watch the video for ‘Sleep’, the new single from Penelope Trappes. Directed by Agnes Haus, it features Maxine Peake and Kate Dickie… an unscripted pseudo-horror film about sleep paralysis at night.
Robert Macfarlane & Nick Hayes have collaborated on another modern Broadside Ballad which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cynefin – Welsh folk singer and cultural historian Owen Shiers. Taken from his forthcoming album Shimli, listen to his latest single, ‘Helmi’, which presents the words of an obscure cân (a poem or song) by farmer Evan Jones.
Dave McNally takes in the sights and sounds of WOMEX 24 in Manchester, including Ireland’s Clare Sands, Ríoghnach Connolly fronting local legends Honeyfeet and compelling, energetic singer Gladys Samba leading the exhilarating collective, Les Mamans du Congo.
Richard Dawson announces his new album ‘End of the Middle’ and shares his lead single ‘Polytunnel’, the video for which was filmed at several allotments…a beautiful tribute to these communal, alternative spaces.
On 26th October, Jerron Paxton made an impressive BBC Television debut on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’. He was interviewed by Jools and performed two songs, including ‘What’s Gonna Become of Me’, from his new album on Smithsonian Folkways, ‘Things Done Changed’.
The shortlisted nominees for the Scots Trad Music Awards 2024 are revealed including Ryan Young, Project Smok, Laura Jane Wilkie, Malin Lewis, Kinnaris Quintet and many more.
Samana share a live video performance of Two Wrongs and announce a special November Tour – an all-artist curated event run by their imprint, The Road Records, described as a spiritual, shamanic experience and service of healing than that of just a musical performance.
Belfast-based folk singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside announces his newest album, “Teeth of Time” out February 28th via Nettwerk and shares latest double A-side ‘Ghost of the Bloomfield Road / Good for One Thing’.
Sam Amidon shares his new single/video ‘I’m On My Journey Home’ and announces his forthcoming album ‘Salt River’, on which he continues his decades-long quest to recontextualise what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music.
