As recently announced, Eddi Reader’s brand new studio album ‘Cavalier’ will be released worldwide on September 28 by Reveal Records. Watch her video for live favourite ‘Wonderful’ (also our Song of the Day).
Eliza & Martin Carthy have announced the release of a live album on CD and DVD recorded live in February 2018 at Hailsham Pavilion, East Sussex. The release is available via Pledge Music along with a host of other goodies.
Following last year’s expansive opus ‘The Holy Strangers’, Micah P. Hinson has returned with a brand new album set to be released on October 26th 2018 – ‘When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You’.
Watch Warming Words, the new single from Marla & David Celia, from their new album Daydreamers out on August 17th. “The video is an endearing love song set to 8mm footage from the childhood of David. He’s the second oldest of four.”
Nearly a quarter of the albums in this year’s SAY Awards longlist are from the folk genre, a sign that folk music is not only thriving well in Scotland but that the Scottish Music Industry Association actively supports it.
Taken from their latest album Lord of the Desert, Utah desert-based string trio 3hattrio reveal video for Skeleton Tree. The video arrives ahead of their current European tour which starts this week.
Rhiannon Giddens called it ‘one of the best weekends of her life.’ In a Cambridge Folk Festival Special, Rob Bridge captures the magic of the weekend in a great set of backstage interviews, photos and more.
Listen to Sunday Song, an acoustic folk ballad and the new single from LA singer-songwriter James Houlahan off of his forthcoming LP The Wheel Still in Spin.
Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) announces new solo album True North – celebrating ten years since his seminal trip to study music in India, and all his many musical travels since. Listen to the first single Kalyan Variations.
A truly spectacular Festival event, DUST brings the culture and soul of American noir to the Edinburgh Fringe and showcases the music-making process…a stunning live performance piece.
Fans of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard won’t want to miss Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 which is out September 21 on Free Dirt Records. Listen to them performing This Little Light of Mine.
Glasgow’s award-winning multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his new project the Guitar Colloquium. The project came about in 2011 with a New Voices commission from Celtic Connections.
