The innovative Scottish smallpipes player and experimental music purveyor Brìghde Chaimbeul has a busy few months ahead. She’ll be making plenty of festival appearances, delivering both solo and collaborative performances. We take a look back at her album releases to date.
Watch the mighty Pentangle performing ‘Blues In Time’, recorded in January 1971 by the BBC. Jacqui McShee sits out this one, leaving Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox to work their instrumental magic.
Taken from their second album, ‘The Beautiful Road‘, Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly share a beautiful video for their new single ‘King of the Kingdom (Rí A’Ríocht)’. Rónán says after his dance, “…it’s like a medicine”…it is.
The Mary Wallopers announce their new album, ‘Irish Rock N Roll’ and share their lead single ‘Wexford’, written by the legendary Irish travelling musician Pecker Dunne, whose songs were covered by the likes of The Dubliners…Anne Briggs also busked with him in Ireland.
Watch the animated video (by Pat Gubler and Mayuko Fujino) for ‘I Have a House’, the new single from P.G. Six, taken from his forthcoming new album Murmurs & Whispers – Modern folk music at its most psychedelically progressive.
Andrew Bird announces Outside Problems, a new album out 21st July on Loma Vista Recordings that emphasises the importance of environmental preservation. Watch the video for Mo Teef, made by Tyler Mason in partnership with Patagonia.
Our Song of the Day is from Scots singer Amy Leach and Highland guitarist Alasdair Paul. Listen to them performing The Twa Brothers – they present their folk songs beautifully and simply, allowing them to speak for themselves.
Taken from his forthcoming ‘Short Stories’ album, Sean Taylor delivers the ice on ‘Be Cool’…a smokey jazz number that nods to Tom Waits, the Beat Generation, Miles and Coltrane.
Ten Steps is the highly anticipated collaborative album from Brooklyn, NY and Tokyo/Black Country Pathfinders Max ZT & Dan Whitehouse. From that album, watch them performing ‘Shizuka’, which translates as ‘quiet’ – it is also our Song of the Day.
Watch Josh Okeefe performing Sam Hall at Foxy John’s in Co. Kerry – this half bar and half hardware store will also be one of the venues on his upcoming tour of the Emerald Isle.
Simon Jones, of the acclaimed experimental folk song and storytelling trio Harp & a Monkey, shares his new single and video ‘Call off the Dawn’ – “…I’m just trying to tap into my own internal imagery and hoping that the results resonate for others.”
Primary Wave are releasing A Song For Leon: A Tribute To Leon Russell, featuring Nathaniel Rateliff, Pixies, U.S. Girls, Orville Peck, Hiss Golden Messenger and more. Listen to Margo Price covering ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’.
