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Filmed at the family-run, independent Chorlton Bookshop, watch the innovative and vibrant Good Habits performing ‘The Earth Has Moved’, their new single, written after Bonnie experienced her first earthquake.

Recorded live at RYP Recording studio and featuring French-born Easymess, watch Jessie Reid performing her stunning new single, ‘A Little Closer’. This is one you will keep wanting to revisit.

Gretchen Peters returns to the UK in May for her final run of shows, following her announcement that she will retire from full-scale touring this year. She Said “It’s important to me to have the opportunity to let UK fans know just how much their support has meant to me. I literally don’t think I’d have a touring career without them.”

Esteemed Scottish singer and Gaelic language advocate Joy Dunlop is set to release her third solo album Caoir. Watch the accompanying video for her lead single ‘Mo nighean donn, ho gù’, a traditional Gaelic waulking song that is given a powerful contemporary musical twist.

Simon Emmerson, the founder of Afro Celt Sound System, core founder of The Imagined Village, record producer, guitarist, bird watcher and Honorary Bard, passed away on Monday, 13th March.

Our Song of the Day comes from Peter One, a 67-year-old country-folk musician originally from Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, now living in Nashville. Listen to ‘Birds Go Die Out Of Sight (Don’t Go Home)’ featuring Allison Russell.

On 14th April, Yorkshire-based songwriter Phil Hooley releases his new album Provenance, the long-awaited follow-up to his debut solo release Songs From The Back Room. Listen to his latest single, ‘The Veteran’s Song’, on which a forgotten survivor examines the futility of war.

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall’, Alasdair Roberts releases his new single today, ‘The Bonny Moorhen’. Watch the accompanying captivating stop frame animation video by Jonathan Farr.

Terry Emm premieres the animated video for his calypso-inspired ‘Island Soul’, the third single to come from his forthcoming album ‘Wish You Were Here’, due out May 19th. It features the sweet vocals of Maz O’Connor and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Drinkwater who also produced the track.

The annual literary and arts festival, The Laugharne Weekend (24-26 March 2023), is to be live-streamed for the first time – including Martin and Eliza Carthy, PP Arnold, Vashti Bunyan, James Yorkston and more.

Taken from her new album ‘All Of This Is Chance’ (one of our Featured Albums of the Month), watch Lisa O’Neill’s new video for ‘The Globe’, here, just with guitar, she performs the song live on the coast of Kerry. She has also announced her headline US Tour dates.

To celebrate the Limited Edition Vinyl release of Kate Ellis’ sophomore album Spiral’s, watch her new video for ‘Hurt’, an iconic song by Trent Reznor, most famously re-interpreted by Johnny Cash at the end of his life.