Our Tune of the Day comes from the incredible Cormac Begley & Liam O’Connor performing Craig’s pipes and the Foxhunter reel live at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Together they reinforce the notion that we are in a golden age of Irish traditional music.
Our Song of the Day is “I Courted A Wee Girl” by Irish duo Ye vagabonds. The video is an excerpt from “Seven Songs On Six Islands” a documentary by Myles O’Reilly, filmed during their tour of some of Ireland’s most picturesque islands.
Hootie & The Blowfish announce new album ‘Imperfect Circle’, their UK & Ireland your for which kicks off in October. Their recent US leg resulted in “the highest attendance figures of their career”.
Glasgow-based folk band Gnoss are on the road again this Autumn including gigs in Manchester, Sheffield, Oxford, London and more. Watch a live video of them performing at Festival Interceltique de Lorient.
Last year saw the release of You Never Were Much of a Dancer, the debut album from Welsh-born American primitivist Gwenifer Raymond. Watch her performing “Idumea” from the album, live in session at Sidmouth.
To mark their 30th Anniversary, Real World Records have released an album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Concert from 1985 alongside a re-issue of the Grammy-nominated “Night Song” on Vinyl for the first time.
Next month, Smithsonian Folkways are to release “Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds”. The 2CD/DVD set honours the life and legacy of Mike Seeger recorded months before his death in 2009.
In November 2019, Jon Boden is taking to the road for a tour with the 6 piece Remnant Kings band. This tour also includes a very special show at the Union Chapel in London with the full 11 piece band. Watch them performing Bee Sting live.
Warner Bros. Pictures have announced they are to release a cinematic film version of Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, ‘Western Stars’, worldwide, on the big screen.
Sarah Jane Scouten releases a powerful new single with “Ballad of a Southern Midwife” a song about the overlap of religious intolerance and sexual oppression and a woman’s fight to live on her own terms, regardless of the consequences.
Red River Dialect release their fifth album ‘Abundance Welcoming Ghosts’ next month which was recorded in rural Southwest Wales. Listen to their lead single ‘Snowdon’ featuring Joan Shelly.
Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook album has reached number 34 in the UK Album Charts, her first-ever Top 40 Album. It also reached an incredible No 2 in the Scottish Album Charts. Don’t miss her Songbook tour.
