North Tyne troubadours The Brothers Gillespie announce new album The Fell – “inspired by the still wild soul of the land in which we live, a land alive with presences, not owned by anyone.” Watch them performing ‘Coventina’s Daughter’, our Song of the Day.
Brighde Chaimbeul has announced that she will be launching her debut album ‘The Reeling’ at Celtic Connections 2019. It features Aidan O Rourke (Lau), Radie Peat (Lankum) and Rona MacDonald Lightfoot of South Uist.
Watch Swedish folk-rock band West of Eden performing “The Head, The Heart & The Tail / Freefalling” at Ben Nevis Distillery, Fort William alongside fiddlers Duncan Chisholm and Iain MacFarlane.
February 1st, 2019 sees the return of Yorkshire musician Serious Sam Barrett with a brand new solo album. Watch his new video for the title track Where The White Roses Grow which is also our Song of the Day.
Watch the video for You Read My Mind, the joyous new single from Me and My Friends which features beautiful plucked cello and Latin-inspired strings. The single is set for release tomorrow on Split Shift Records.
Our Song of the Day comes from English folk trio Faustus. The Deadly Sands is from the Ruth Tongue Collection, a cheery tale…The sands of the Severn Estuary swallow up unfortunate sailors. Everyone dies.
Watch Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton in a ten-piece collective performing four tracks from their latest album Symbiosis II plus listen to Ross Ainslie’s new single with Runrig guitarist Malcolm Jones called Hope in the Chaos.
Watch the video for “Embers”, the opening track on the second Cubs full-length album “Darkr Earlyr”. The left-of-field folky group features members of A Lilac Decline, Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, United Bible Studies, The Driftwood Manor and Loner Deluxe.
Festival of Small Halls will run for eight days and includes concerts, cèilidhs, workshops in halls and schools by some of the nation’s finest traditional musicians, including Jarlath Henderson, Duncan Chisholm, Mairearad Green, Innes Watson, Donald Shaw, Mike Vass and Seán Gray.
Watch Dick Gaughan performing Childhood’s End at the recent Far, Far From Ypres Stage Show. Dick had a stroke in 2016 which has prevented him from performing so this will be a real treat to fans of whom he has many. Great to have him back!
Our Song of the Day is Séadnadh Mór (The Lion and Fox) performed live by Preab Meadar (Lorcán Mac Mathúna and Daire ó Breacáin). They are joined by Sean Nós dancers Liam Scanlon and Caoimhe Ní Mhaolagáin.
