Josh Okeefe delivers another gold nugget with “Rolling with the Punches”, delivered with genuine fire and passion that looks “The Man” straight in the eye.
Sam Sweeney finally gets to take Unearth Repeat on the road for what must be a touring highlight of the year. Watch them performing Steepy Downs Road live at Cecil Sharp House.
Josephine Foster’s new album “Godmother” – part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk – finds her looking towards new horizons as she marries a myriad of previous musical escapades with electronic experiments. Listen to lead single ‘Guardian Angel’.
Folk pop auteur Dana Gavanski returns with a brand new single today and a glimpse of what’s to come with her new album due next year. It’s called Letting Go.
Having opened for Spiers and Boden on their extensive Fallow Ground Tour, the New Year brings a new tour for Lady Nade as she tours her third album ‘Willing’.
Sophia Djebel Rose, France’s priestess of psychedelic folk returns in March with a new album. Taken from Métempsycose, watch her video for Vénus…”if Botticcelli’s Venus could sing, this is what she would sing”.
The fourth SEALL Festival of Small Halls kicks off officially on Friday 19 November featuring Mary Macmaster (Poozies), Angus MacKenzie (Daìmh), Ewan Robertson (Breabach), Seán Gray (Paul McKenna Band), Megan Henderson (Breabach), Inge Thomson, Marie Fielding and Mairearad Green.
This month, experience the ’Ten Steps’ UK tour with Max ZT (“Jimi Hendrix of hammered dulcimer”) and Dan Whitehouse. Watch their ‘Ten Steps’ video, the title track of their collaborative EP and also our Song of the Day.
Glasgow-based Gaelic singer Deirdre Graham launches Gaelic Song Stories, a six part podcast series featuring notable Gaelic singers Margaret Bennett, Kirsteen Graham, Rachel Newton and Gillebride MacMillan, as well as antiquarian bookseller Gilleasbuig Ferguson.
Described by Dónal Lunny as ‘one of the most important traditional singers to emerge out of Ireland in the last decade’, this month, two times BBC Folk Award-winning Dublin singer and musician Daoirí Farrell heads out on tour across the UK.
Jethro Tull have announced details for the group’s first studio album of new material in over 18 year titled ‘The Zealot Gene’. Watch the video for first single from the album, titled ‘Shoshana Sleeping’, accompanied by a stunning visual created by Thomas Hicks.
The magic of Spell Songs (Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, and Jim Molyneux) returns in December with Let The Light In. Taken from the album watch the accompanying video to their new single ‘Oak’, led by Kris Drever.
