Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum announce their new album ‘False Lankum’ today. They have shared the first single ‘Go Dig My Grave’ with a video by Peadar Gill/Vicky Langan (also our Song of the Day) – I think this new album will go far beyond expectations.
Our Song of the Day is Latin White, the new single from Xylouris White. The short vibrant dance piece is taken from their new album, The Forest In Me. Watch the accompanying video by Rebecca E. Marshall.
Featuring a guest appearance from Jerry Douglas, ‘Sonny’s Dream’ is the first single from Daoirí Farrell’s upcoming fourth album, ‘The Wedding Above In Glencree’. I’ve never heard Farrell sound so good, which is why I’ve no hesitation in making this our Song of the Day.
For her new album Domestic Sphere, Josephine Foster performs solely with her electric guitar; watch the accompanying video for her lead single, Pendulum. “These songs are vigils, melodies sung intently, to be set aflame and sung off with the wind.”
The Little Unsaid is to release a 15-track live album titled Live At The Pound. It was recorded at Pound Arts in Corsham at the end of a difficult 2022 tour for an online concert, watch them performing Milltown and Big Red.
Our Song of the Day is taken from ‘The Portable Herman Dune Vol 2’. Watch ‘Undiscarded Jacaranda’, one of the only Herman Dune songs ever written with a chorus in French, sung by his partner Mayon Hanania. This could easily become a timeless classic.
Josienne Clarke announces her new album Onliness (songs of solitude & singularity) and shares the music video for The Tangled Tree, one of her earliest compositions and also our Song of the Day.
Featuring Niamh Dunne, Karan Casey shares her latest album single ‘Sister I Am Here For You’, a song which celebrates the “profound beauty found in female friendship and camaraderie”.
Rachel Baiman has shared her new video for Self Made Man, a re-write of a John Hartford song that features on her new album “Common Nation of Sorrow”. Don’t miss her extensive UK/US tour this spring.
Billy Bragg, Oysterband, Breabach, Talisk, Jiggy, N’Faly Kouyaté, Daphne’s Flight, Spiers & Boden, and Leveret are among the first names announced for Shrewsbury Folk Festival.
Our Song of the Day comes from Lady Nade with a beautiful cover of Gillian Welch’s ‘Everything is Free’. We chat to her about the song and the message she wants to put across, one of ‘fair pay and fair play’.
Angeline Morrison’s The Sorrow Songs, voted No 1 in our Top 100 Folk Albums of 2022, is released on Vinyl today via Topic Records. Don’t miss her upcoming solo dates including Celtic Connections this month.
