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The Mining Co., the musical project of Ireland born, London based singer/songwriter Michael Gallagher, releases a Christmas single. Watch the accompanying video for Last Stop for Tired Reindeer, sprinkled throughout with vintage technicolour nostalgia.

We Are The Monsters is a new project featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee. The results promise to be boundary pushing and quite electrifying -a new celtic folk fusion sound.

EFDSS is delighted to announce that Eliza Carthy MBE has agreed to become its next President. Eliza takes over the honorary post from Shirley Collins. Angeline Morrison and Arti Prashar have also been appointed as board members.

Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh are a new all-female close harmony folk trio that brings together the exciting talents of Odette Michell, Karen Pfeiffer and Daria Kulesh. Watch the accompanying video for their debut single The Cossack’s Bride.

ITMA take us behind the scenes of Lisa O’Neill’s research into Arthur Griffith, as she prepares for Treaty: Songs at the NCH in December – a Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Watch South East London-based singer songwriter Luca Wilding in a mesmerising live performance of ‘Nobody Game’ from his new EP ‘Book of Fate’, which is out now.

With Shared Notes, Martin Hayes has written an engrossing book that illuminates his life-long musical purpose, where his music fits in the multi-faceted world of Irish traditional music, and how he overcame the bumps in the road along that journey.

Glenn Kimpton releases two new long-form improvised guitar pieces ‘He Thinks I am the Wisest Man’, recorded in a Bristol allotment on a beautiful late summer afternoon which have been mastered by Nick Jonah Davis. Don’t miss him at Friendly Records’ upcoming Winter Guitar Jamboree with C Joynes and Paul Bradley.

Stephen Cracknell’s ‘The Memory Band’ returns with new album ‘Colours’. Watch the accompanying video for Albion’s Daughter, inspired by the poetry of William Blake.

Our Song of the Day comes from Phil King with a gorgeous cover of Jackson C. Frank’s Blues Run The Game. The song, which featured on Frank’s self-titled debut album has attracted many covers including Bert Jansch, Martin Simpson, Wizz Jones, Eddi Reader and many more.

For health reasons, Martin and Eliza Carthy’s Autumn & Winter work went down. They now have a heap of early 2022 duo dates as well as Eliza Carthy Trio dates in April 2022. Don’t miss their online concert this month.

Filmed and produced by Terry McMahon, watch the video for Lorcan Mac Mathuna’s “A Bhean Úd Thíos”, a Sean Nós song about fairy abduction. It was filmed in a Belcarra Eviction Cottage besides Castlebar in Co. Mayo, a place that seemed to incite the film.