Watch ‘Young’, the first single from Austin-based band Sun June whose debut album ‘years’ will be released via Keeled Scales in June. These warm melodies will keep you coming back.
Canadian foursome The Fretless share video for Holton Alan Moore’s, a tune which appears on their new album Live From The Artfarm, recorded live in a barn in upstate New York before a handful-sized audience assembled only a few feet away from the players.
Acclaimed folk singer and 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee, Julie Fowlis, releases her latest video today to mark International Woman’s Day. The song, Go Your Way, features on Julie’s latest album Alterum.
Watch this beautiful live session of The Little Unsaid performing ‘Day is Golden’ at Highgate Cemetary. The song is also the title of their forthcoming tour. Selected Works, a 15 track career to date primer is set for release on May 18 via Reveal Records.
This morning BBC Radio 2 announced that singer-songwriter Nick Drake will be inducted into the Folk Awards Hall of Fame at this years’ Radio 2 Folk Awards and that Dónal Lunny will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Following on from the success of their debut album ‘Symbiosis’ Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton will release their second album ‘Symbiosis II’ this spring (20 April). Take a listen to the track Birds.
Spring is coming and Sproatly Smith are getting ready for Weirdshire International Psych Folk Festival ft. Kitchen Cynics, Trappist Afterland, David Colohan, Cath and Phil Tyler and more.
Neko Case announces ‘Hell-On’, her most accessible and most challenging album to date – rife with withering self-critique, muted reflection, anthemic affirmation and Neko’s unique poetic sensibility. Listen to the title track here.
Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock reveal brand new video ‘Forgive Me’, taken from latest album Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love. The song’s lyrics cover a subject that any mother could no doubt empathise with, and it is encased beautifully in their atmospheric folk song.
John Prine reveals ‘Knockin’ On Your Screen Door’, the second track to be taken from his new album ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’, set for release on April 13 via his own independent label, Oh Boy Records.
Our Song of the Day comes from Kristina Jung with her new single The North Water which was commissioned by the Groninger Museum and is dedicated to an old oil painting by Jan van Goyen, who lived in the 17th century.
Our Song of the Day begins with the sun on Galway Bay, courtesy of Dubliner David Kitt and his new single “Like Lightning”. It’s taken from his new album Yous due out 9th March on Dublin’s own All City Records.
