In May, master guitarist Martin Simpson will be playing eight shows with melodeon maestro and close friend Andy Cutting. The tour will include new material that will form the core of Martin’s new solo album, due for release next March.
Our tune of the day comes from Australian finger-style guitarist D.C Cross. Watch him performing ‘Lithgow Pink’ from his new album ‘Hot-wire the Lay-low’. A player with plenty to say and all the skills to say it.
Derek Piotr is back with a new solo single, an excellent take on “How Can I Keep from Crying?” taken from his forthcoming album “The Devil Knows How”. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.
Our Song of the Day comes from Nick Mulvey with ‘A Prayer of My Own’, taken from his forthcoming album ‘New Mythology’, an album he hopes “…inspires and stimulates new ideas, insights and ambitions” and “…generates a sense of the sacred within its audience”.
Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Lady Mondegreen’, watch Fellow Pynins performing their lead single ‘Pretty Polly’. Their timing and arrangements ebb and flow beautifully and they instantly sound at one with the song.
Keston Cobblers Club return with a meditative new single, ‘Lullaby For The Wide Awake’ – out March 30th 2022 via Absolute Label Services. Watch the accompanying video here.
Ye Vagabonds today release a new single ‘Go Away and Come Back Hither’, taken from their forthcoming album for Rough Trade’s River Lea label, ‘Nine Waves’ which is to be released on May 13th.
Scottish trio Salt House (Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl) have shared their new single and video ‘Headwater’, the first to be taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Riverwoods’, inspired by and featured in the conservation film ‘Riverwoods: An Untold Story’.
Féile Róise Rua returns live from Árainn Mhór Island to your screens this year with an online live-streamed broadcast in partnership with Other Voices on the 19 of May and an in-person festival from 20 -22 May.
Following the release of her incredible debut album ‘The Eternal Rocks Beneath’, Katherine Priddy is heading out on a UK tour this Spring from April to early June.
Ben & Dom are two friendly new faces to these pages. Taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Shoulder’, watch the video for their lead single ‘By Your Side’. In an age of growing social isolation, could you ask for warmer words?
Irish singer Eva Coyle premieres her beautiful new video for her latest single ‘Down to The Shore’ that marries musical influences from her native Ireland and Scandinavia. If she’s not on your radar, then she should be.
