Ye Vagabonds are to release their second album for Rough Trade’s River Lea label. Titled Nine Waves, the album will be released on May 13th and will be supported by a UK Tour. Watch them performing their lead single ‘Blue Is The Eye’ live.
Watch Roscommon-based Gatehouse performing The Gypsies…the tale of a rich lady who falls in love with a dark-eyed gypsy and elopes with him. While unashamedly traditional, their old-school approach is filled with an undeniable warmth and spirit that’s impossible to resist.
Haitian-American artist Leyla McCalla, announces her new album ”Breaking the Thermometer’ and shares video for new single ‘Vini Wè’, inspired by the love story of Radio Haiti station owner and journalist Jean Dominique and his wife and fellow journalist Michéle Montas.
Listen in full to The Wave Pictures “Winter” EP; five songs that make up the next instalment from their forthcoming double album “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”, set for release in May and supported by a UK Tour.
Dublin-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Inni-K turns her attention to the rich heritage of Irish traditional sean-nós singing on Iníon, an album of tremendous understatement, power and beauty.
Walton Folk Festival is returning to its usual May bank holiday slot for 2022 featuring Wildwood Kin, Polly Paulusma, Angeline Morrison, The Outside Track, Ellie Gowers and Jack Cookson.
The Gigspanner Big Band have announced a collaborative project with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, the Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the South West Coast Path. Saltlines is a Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words.
Fresh from performing two nights at the brilliant Celtic Connections, the Irish quartet The Jeremiahs have announced they will be bringing their live show to England for an eight-night tour this February 2022. Not to be missed!
Folk Radio UK have teamed up with Treadwells Bookshop for an online workshop, led by Hannah Sanders, that explores occulted meanings lurking in the shadows of the British folk song tradition.
Taken from Deer Scout’s debut full-length Woodpecker album, watch the video for Cowboy, an intimate and intricate number inspired by the naïve character Joe Buck of Midnight Cowboy.
Keston Cobblers Club are back and have shared a video for their new single Mrs Dixon that centres on escapism and the balance of work and fun in life. They have a new album in the works and are on tour in April/May.
Next month, County Galway songwriter Niamh Regan returns with the launch of her new EP ‘In the Meantime’. To celebrate the release Niamh has announced launch dates at The Grand Social, Dublin and London’s Green Note.
