‘Dancing Under the Moon’ is a new double album from The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar. It was beautifully recorded in situ in the Rif mountains and is out now on Glitterbeat Records.
The Early Mays are an Appalachian folk duo featuring Ellen Gozion and Emily Pinkerton. Taken from their forthcoming EP Prettiest Blue, listen to their new single ‘The Ballad of Johnny Fall’.
Dekker, a Nottingham-based indie-folk artist releases his sophomore album I Won’t Be Your Foe tomorrow. Listen to his final single ‘I Only Hope To Feel Love’, a mantra for a brighter future.
If you love music and sometimes muse over why it occupies such an important place in your life, you will revel in Jude Rogers’ sweeping, often raw, but decidedly life-affirming book ‘The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives’.
East Sussex based artist & singer-songwriter India Blue has just released a new video for As a Flame from her debut studio album The Circus Came and Left.
Jacqui McShee has shared an exclusive recording made on 23rd January 1974 at Grenoble University in France of her performance with the late John Renbourn. Listen in full here.
Féile Róise Rua returns this Thursday (19th May) with an unmissable Livestream featuring Helen Diamond, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Jimmy Canavan, Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Seosamh O Neachtain and more.
Flamenco singer Perrate, joins forces with producer Raül Refree (Rosalía), on new album Tres Golpes on which flamenco breaks free of the genre’s constraints to create a groundbreaking album of avant European music making. Watch the accompanying album trailer.
Myles O’Reilly has announced a new album, A collection of ambient folk songs called ‘‘Cocooning Heart’. The first taster from the album is out now, ‘The Most Colourful Thread in the Loom’.
Irish concertina player Cormac Begley releases his second solo album ‘B’ on which he explores the sound potentials of the Bass and Baritone concertina range. With this record being the first solo Bass concertina album of any musical genre.
Four-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominee Sarah Jane Scouten is currently on a short tour of the south of England with Ags Connolly whose last album Tom Russell described as “Killer”.
Friendship have shared news of their new album ‘Love the Stranger’ (29th July on Merge) with the track ‘Hank’ – coming in as if David Burman found his way onto one of those early Real Estate bumpers.