Taken from her ‘Like Animals’ album (2020), watch the new video from Charlie Dore for ‘Ordinary Names’…names that have fallen out of fashion and heydays of the past.
Megan Henderson, a member of the award-winning Scottish folk group Breabach, will release her long-awaited solo-debut Pilgrim Souls on 21 January 2022. Listen to her first single, The Dawn Chorus.
Watch the latest video from Valtos (Skye Natives Daniel Docherty and Martyn MacDonald) for their remix of Peatbog Faeries ‘Marx Terrace’, on which they add their own twist and ‘Valtos flair’. It features some great clips from their sold-out show at SWG3, Glasgow.
Our Song of the Day comes from Jake Xerxes Fussell with “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” the fourth and final single off taken from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st on Paradise of Bachelors.
Celtic Connections have confirmed that a number of shows and elements within the 2022 programme can no longer go ahead due to the uncertainty and disruption caused by the Omicron variant.
Taken from their fifth studio album Overland (out on 14th January), watch the superb new animated video from UK Americana band Police Dog Hogan for ‘Here Comes Crow’. Their best yet.
An Tinne (The Chain) is a project led by SEALL, and Skye Gaelic singer Anne Martin linking a collection of songs, stories and objects across the centuries between Scotland and Australia.
The organisers of Gate to Southwell have confirmed that the 15th festival will now take place from July 14th to 17th 2022. Names include Peat & Diesel, Dervish, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Chris While and Julie Mathews, Greg Russell and Danny Pedlar and more.
Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis has released a digital EP featuring songs she composed to accompany the Source To Sea podcast series in which Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travel the length of three major Scottish rivers (The River Dee, River Tay and River Clyde).
Sam Sweeney announces ‘Solo’, the first in a series of EPs that highlight the band members who performed on his acclaimed album ‘Unearth Repeat’. Listen to opening track “Untitled Waltz #1 / Tweedside”.
During the summer of 2021, Northern collective ‘Harp and a Monkey’ worked on a commission to capture an aural representation of everyday life for inhabitants of the Peak District in Derbyshire. Watch the accompanying video ‘Birdsong and Bells: The Peak Sound Project’.
Watch the video for ‘Meeting Is Over’, the new single from Moira Smiley featuring Piers Faccini and Seamus Egan – a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. The perfect end-of-year song.
