Listen to ‘Atlas Of Love’, the latest single from Toronto-based band Union Duke. They’ve created an instant warm classic that is sure to build their ever-broadening fanbase in both North America and Europe.
The Manchester Folk Festival which incorporated this year’s BBC Folk Awards was an undoubted success and Manchester more than warrants a folk music showcase of this kind that continues to grow and develop.
Pennsylvania trio The Innocence Mission announce new album “See You Tomorrow”. Watch their moving video for lead track “On Your Side”, created by Karen Peris, which beautifully weaves together her distinctive hand-drawn animation with striking black & white photography.
Josienne Clarke has today shared ‘Slender, Sad & Sentimental’ and its striking video, from her forthcoming debut solo album ‘In All Weather’ which is released on Rough Trade Records on November 8th.
Our Song of the Day comes from Boston-based singer songwriter Lisa Bastoni. Watch her performing ‘Pockets Full of Sighs’, taken from her latest album ‘How We Want To Live’.
Seán Purser shares his highlights and photographs from Cape Breton’s Celtic Colours International Festival, an unforgettable 9-day celebration that is Staged in more than 300 venues around the island.
Ye Vagabonds were the big winners RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards scooping three awards. Winners also included the incredible Lisa O’Neill, Saint Sister, Zoë Conway, Iarla Ó’Lionáird as well as Moya Brennan receiving a lifetime achievement award and Margaret Barry inducted into the Hall of Fame.
New Orleans-based Balkan band Blato Zlato return with new single ‘Vodata Teche’ taken from their forthcoming new album ‘In The Wake’ which, while musically rooted in Bulgarian tradition, reflects heavily on New Orleans’ tenuous yet binding relationship with nature.
Watch Ian A Anderson performing Everybody’s Killing Me, a song he wrote back in 1984 but has recently started performing again in his revitalised solo gigging career after having been struck by its scary topicality.
Next month, SEALL Festival of Small Halls once again brings the giants of Scottish traditional music to small rural communities around the Isles of Skye and Raasay.
Xylouris White’s video for “Ascension”, directed by Shelagh Hannan, relates to the Sisyphean theme of their forthcoming album. The Sisypheans is out on November 8th with a European & US Tour to follow.
Watch the stunning new video for Maz O’Connor’s ‘Cordelia’, taken from her new album ‘Chosen Daughter’. The video was made by Certain Light Films, a female-led, London-based film company.
