‘Dignity’ – a Livestream celebration of 80 years of Bob Dylan live from Dublin (Monday 24 May) is to feature Lisa Hannigan, Cinder Well, FeliSpeaks, Peter Broderick, Brigid Mae Power, Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill and more.
Following the recent release of her debut EP, Atlaness, Vicky Gray has released a music video for the lead track, Teif on da Lum…a beautiful collaboration with Shetland film-maker, JJ Jamieson.
The first-ever digital edition of Edinburgh Tradfest was a great success, reaching traditional music fans in America and Australia, as well as across Scotland and the UK.
Johanna Samuels’ debut album Excelsior! is out digitally today on Basin Rock. Arguably leaving the best to last, she’s sharing the music video for album opener “Sonny”.
Taken from Joshua Burnell’s forthcoming new EP Storm Cogs, watch the video for ‘Shelagh’s Song’, inspired by the life of Scottish singer-songwriter Shelagh McDonald, the Seventies folk singer who went missing for 30 years.
Martha Wainwright has announced her new album “Love Will Be Reborn”, her first release since 2016’s ‘Goodnight City’. Set for release on August 20th and followed by a UK Tour, she paves the way with a stunning title track single.
FolkEast is on course to return this August ft. Afro Celt Sound System, The Young’Uns, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Daoiri Farrell, Drever, McCusker, Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Shee, Gigspanner Big band, Topette!!, Trials of Cato and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cork-born fearless feisty fiddler, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Clare Sands. She is joined by Steve Cooney and Tommy Sands on her outstanding new single ‘Abair Liom do Rúin (Tell Me Your Secrets)’.
Recorded at night in Highnam Woods, Gloucestershire, ‘Nightingale Soul Call’ expresses a suspended moment in time in which Adrian Freedman’s Shakuhachi flute met the nightingale, and together with Sam Lee on the shruti box, a meeting of kindred souls took place.
The pioneering Folkatron Sessions return on 2nd July with their second EP Home No More. Watch their accompanying video for ‘An Bonnán Buí (The Yellow Bittern)’ inspired by Anne Briggs’ iconic solo vocal version.
Watch the video (by filmmaker Timothy Breen) for ‘Inner Smile’, the new single and joyful closing track from David John Morris’s (Red River Dialect) forthcoming solo album Monastic Love Songs.
Rodney Crowell’s 18th Studio album, Triage, is to be released on July 23, 2021. Watch the video for his first single, “Something Has To Change”, directed by filmmaker/musician Haroula Rose and shot at Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, TN.
