Scotland’s accordion virtuoso Gary Innes releases a new single “The Hurling Man” to celebrate Ireland’s ancient and native sport Hurling featuring Don Stiffe, Sharon Shannon plus a whole host of other terrific musicians.
Following his highly acclaimed 2019 album ‘Where the White Roses Grow’, Yorkshire’s Serious Sam Barrett returns next month with an album of British Folk songs titled ‘The Seeds of Love’. Watch his new video for The Waggoner, a Tyneside ballad of the Great Northern Coalfield.
Samana is the work of Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett. A project that is both poetry, music, striking photography and fine art. Watch their live recording of Begin Again, a song about the absence of a love through an unforeseen death. A stunning and spellbinding performance.
Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Duncan has announced details of her new album titled ‘Cocoon’ and shares lead single ‘A Door Is Opening’, “…about the momentous feeling of leaving the house for a walk during lockdown”.
In follow-up to debut album Hemet, Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan releases single ‘Happy Again’, produced by Alex Borwick…as substantially poignant as anything we’ve heard from her so far, overflowing with affirmation and endeavour.
Jenny Sturgeon heads out on the road as part of Salt house and Northern Flyway and finally gets to tour her latest solo album ‘The Living Mountain’. Our Songs of the Day were produced during her residency at the National Library of Scotland during winter 2020-21.
Martin Sagadin, a Slovenian Born, New Zealand based non-binary filmmaker and artist, heads to the hills above Lyttelton, New Zealand with Australian folk musician Archer to capture a sublime performance in words and song.
Karine Polwart announces ‘Still As Your Sleeping’ an intimate, stripped-back collection of songs recorded with renowned pianist and composer Dave Milligan. Out on 1st October 2021 via Hudson Records.
Listen to the new single from Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire performing Peggy Gordon. Lisa O’Neill delivers the lyrics – about the despair of unrequited love – with poise and poignancy. Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s solo fiddle is elegant in its gentle understatement.
Taken from his debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’, watch John Francis Flynn performing ‘Lovely Joan’ live at Connolly’s of Leap. The video, by Director extraordinaire Peadar Ó Goill, cleverly pairs with the story of a local man’s friendship with a cat. Exceptional on all fronts.
Our Song of the Day comes from the super-talented Fay Hield with “When She Comes”, taken from her latest solo album ‘Wrackline’ which she tours next month. Wrackline is a world lovingly crafted by Hield, with its own logic, its own depths of meaning.
Johnny Whalley shares some of his highlights from this year’s Wickham Festival which went the extra mile in delivering an incredible lineup to an audience that clapped, cheered, sang and danced, showing that live music could, once again, be enjoyed in a muddy field.
