The winner of this year’s RTÉ Radio 1’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 goes to Mary Black. The shortlist for this year’s Folk Awards has also been announced including Junior Brother, Clare Sands, Inni-K, Ye Vagabonds, Anna Mieke and lots more.
Taken from her new EP ‘WAS’ (out now), watch Thea Gilmore’s new video for ‘Bones’, the visual concept for which was created by Thea with the help of visual artist Andy Goff using AI technology.
The 9-piece folk band Shovel Dance Collective announce their new album ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’, exploring resonances of river Thames, and share their lead single ‘The Bold Fisherman’.
Inspired by the life and work of photographer Mike Brodie, Samana release their new single ‘Two Wrongs’, an ode to escaping and breaking free from the mundane.
Dezron Douglas shares the second single from his new album ATALAYA on International Anthem. “More Coffee Please” is ‘a muscular, hard-swinging tune with the energy of the celebrated beverage.’
Spencer Cullum shares his new video for Kingdom Weather (feat. Yuma Abe), the lead single from his forthcoming new album Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, due for release in April 2023.
Bass player and double bass maker Neal Heppleston releases his new solo album “Plankton and the Whale Shark” next month. Watch the video for his lead single Ebisu, featuring Sharron Kraus and Hayden Berry, a deeply immersive listening experience that you really don’t want to end.
Old Spot are a new Old-Time duo featuring Joe Danks and Rowan Piggott. The first video from Old Spot’s debut album sees earthy gourd banjo and the natural beauty of Padley Gorge underpinning the winding Old Time fiddle tune ‘Black Eyed Susie Jane’.
Basin Rock are to release an album of never-before-heard 70s British folk by Trevor Beales, recorded in the attic of his family home in Hebden Bridge when still a teenager. One to file next to Davey Graham, Michael Chapman, Bert Jansch and Jackson C Frank.
On 11 November, Lady Maisery, the combined multi-talents of Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans, return with their new album ‘tender’. Watch the accompanying video for ‘bird i do not know’, their lead single, a song of hope, born of turbulent times.
The Foreign Landers are mandolinist David Benedict, who grew up in South Carolina, and Tabitha Agnew Benedict, who started playing 5-string banjo at a young age in her homeland of Northern Ireland. Watch them performing Garden, taken from their forthcoming debut album Travelers Rest.
Our Song of the Day comes from Sara Noelle with Color of Light on the Water; watch the beautiful accompanying animated video by Kelsey Boncato. The track is taken from her third full-length LP Do I Have to Feel Everything, which arrives on January 27.
