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Banjo-loving Coleraine native Damien O’Kane and California’s Ron Block are on the road again this month with their band for what promises to be a great party. It includes a one-off show at Hammersmith Irish & Cultural Centre with Michael McGoldrick and Irish singer Aoife Scott.

Melrose Quartet, featuring Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith, announce their new album, ‘Make The World Anew’ and share their lead single and video animation (by Marry Waterson) for ‘Scarecrow’, a song written by Lal & Mike Waterson.

In 2016, we interviewed Ex-Midlake frontman and songwriter Tim Smith about his new project ‘Harp’. While a lot has changed since that interview, today he is announcing his debut album ‘Albion’ and sharing the lead single and video “I Am The Seed”.

John Francis Flynn announces his new album ‘Look Over The Wall, See The Sky’ and shares ‘Mole In The Ground’, an unconventional new single that evokes the rebellious energy he felt when his home of Dublin was being “torn to shreds by property developers and vulture funds.”

Rita Braga’s ‘Flores Indigestas’ has the vibrancy of tropicalia and the noirish shades of off-kilter pop. The effect is playfully engaging and demonstrates her beautifully progressive musical vision. The accompanying video reflects the eccentricities of Braga’s music, continually mutating and shapeshifting, making it so beautifully original.

Today, marks the release of Eternity Near, the new album from Ulster trio TRÚ. Watch their spellbinding new video for ‘Is Fada Liom Uaim Í’ that they learned from Kevin Burke and Micheál Ó Domhnaill’s 1982 Portland album.

Lankum did us proud at last night’s Mercury Prize for which their fourth album, False Lankum, was nominated. Watch them performing ‘Go Dig My Grave’. Radie Peat learned the song from the singing of Jean Ritchie, who recorded it in 1963.

Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell self-released their first duo album, You, Golden, almost a year ago. Make sure to attend their tour, which kicks off this month. Here are some excellent reasons why you should make the effort…

Ahead of her upcoming tour, watch a stunning live performance of Goodnight World by Lisa O’Neill, captured by Myles O’Reilly, Donal Dineen and Daniel O’Neill “… Lisa…never fails to make my hair stand up with her honest beauty, was such a thrilling and rewarding experience.”

For his latest single, ‘We Are Here’, Michael Waugh turns to the power of storytelling, delivering an anthemic, rousing folk song that praises heroes, all of whom are gay pioneers…it is a call to action: we won’t be silent anymore!

For the first time in over fifty years, Dave Evans’ 1972 folk opus Elephantasia is to be reissued on Earth Recordings in collaboration with his estate and original Village Thing producer Ian A. Anderson. Listen to Beauty Queen and Only Blue.

You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of award-winning British composer and writer Kerry Andrew, has announced the release of their forthcoming album ‘hare // hunter // moth // ghost’. Watch the haunting animated video for their new single ‘winter solstice’, made by Marry Waterson.