The Amish record label are to reissue P.G. Six’s 2001 solo debut ‘Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites’ as an expanded and remastered edition that includes an eight-song bonus LP entitled ‘Live Cuts and Radio Favorites’ documenting performances from the calendar year just before and after the release.
Nonesuch has announced Natalie Merchant’s first album of new songs in nearly a decade. Keep Your Courage is to be released on 14 April 2023. The album features a number of collaborations including one with award winning Irish music band Lúnasa.
Watch the video for Harp & a Monkey’s new single ‘Poor People We’ which deals with such timeless themes as injustice, frustration and social protest. The accompanying lyric video is suitably gritty.
Watch Still Beauty, the second single taken from the Italian duo She Owl’s much anticipated new album Invisible Heart, due out in January 2023. The song ‘explores the ideal of beauty and attempt to pin down its origins’.
Taken from her forthcoming album Anarchist Gospel, Sunny War releases her new single ‘Higher’ featuring the legendary Dave Rawlings. As ever, she crafts her songs deeply and this is no exception… also our ‘Song of the Day’.
2022 saw a great alliance and friendship between the Show of Hands and Track Dogs. Watch them performing ‘Ruby’, their new single, taken from their forthcoming album The ‘Dog Show Sessions’ Live.
Peter Knight and John Spiers head out on their festive tour next month. They will feature some songs and tunes to reflect the season and a generous helping of material from their albums ‘Well Met’ and ‘Both in a Tune’. Not to be missed.
Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson and Nathaniel Mann join forces as the Hack-Poet’s Guild and knock the ball out of the park with their lead single ‘Daring Highwayman’.
It’s been another great year for Irish music and last night’s RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards saw wins for Ye Vagabonds, Cormac Begley, Susan O’Neill, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, the olllam and Cathal Ó Curráin.
Finding beauty in the bleakest places, Toria Wooff shares stories of the world around her. A hyper-real painter, poet and musician with Synesthesia, the characters she encounters emerge through song and ‘All I Dream About (Is You)’ showcases a more vulnerable side to her artistry.
The Trials of Cato share their modern plague song, Ring of Roses, taken from their new album Gog Magog which drops next week on 25th November. Despite the haunting elements of this song, they raise it, phoenix-like, to become an instant crowd-pleaser.
Watch the video for John Blek’s new single St. John’s Eve, a song that depicts the excruciating nervousness and excitement of first love. It’s the second single to be taken from his new album “Until The Rivers Run Dry”.
