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.
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman’s latest album proves a ‘tour de force’ of musical and lyrical surprises. Watch their new music video for Pew Tor. Almost A Sunset’ will be released on March 17th in conjunction with the start of an extensive 26-date UK tour.
Our Song of the Day comes from Hack-Poets Guild (Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann) with Ten Tongues. Watch the accompanying animated video by Marry Waterson.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana makes a double appearance at Celtic Connections this month. To celebrate, watch the premiere of her new video for ‘Comed 1858’, taken from her latest album Edyf.
Lisa O’Neill has shared a new track and accompanying video for ‘Silver Seed’, taken from her new album ‘All of This Is Chance’, out February 10th, 2023. An entrancing Lisa O’Neill at her very best.
Heading West, the remarkable new documentary film about Shooglenifty, one of the most ground-breaking Scottish music bands ever formed in the 1990s, is to tour cinemas throughout Scotland from 30 January 2023.
Celtic Connections, Europe’s premier folk and roots music festival, launches in Glasgow tomorrow – 1200 musicians will take to the stage for 300 events at more than 25 venues across the city, with shows spanning traditional folk, roots, Americana, jazz, soul and world music.
Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts has shared his latest single, ‘Eppie Morrie’, taken from his forthcoming new album Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional folk songs.
