Roots in the Round is a Nashville style songwriters circle featuring award-winning singer/songwriter Robert Vincent, acclaimed Scottish troubadour Dean Owens and special guests Worry Dolls.
Les Filles de Illighada are a Tuareg female-led avant-rock group and Eghass Malan is their first studio album. Hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythm, and polyphonic resonant vocals combine to create organic sound, that is both timeless and natural.
Lilly Hiatt’s Trinity Lane which was released in the US in summer 2017 to widespread critical acclaim is to have its UK release on February 2, 2018, via New West Records. It will be followed by a UK tour in April.
It has been twenty years since the passing of English composer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Jeffes (the founder of Penguin Cafe Orchestra). To mark the Anniversary, Erased Tapes have reissued Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s final studio album ‘Union Cafe’, including a vinyl edition for the first time.
PicaPica features the dual talents of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates accompanied by Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Spring & Shade is their new EP, a short but beautiful offering from two very talented singers who have no shortage of experience in creating dreamy harmonies.
This week sees the release of Snorri Helgason’s new album Margt býr í þokunni which has been four years in the making. The 10 songs which make up the album are all based on Icelandic folktales and traditional Icelandic folklore.
Mancunian Americana band The Travelling Band have unveiled a vibrant and uplifting new video for their forthcoming single Mopping Forwards due for release just before Christmas on 22 December.
For her fifth studio album Cusp (out 9 Feb, AllPoints), Alela Diane taps into the nurture, strength and emotion of motherhood, a sentiment that travels movingly through the eye of a lens on her new video for Emigré, our Song of the Day.
Legendary singer-songwriter, Ralph McTell, has re-recorded his timeless song, ‘Streets of London’, with a choir made up of clients from Crisis – the national charity for homeless people – and guest vocalist Annie Lennox.
Once again, this year, the team at Hands Up For Trad presented a magnificent event, celebrating the very best in Scots trad music from 2017. Neil McFadyen shares the highlights and winners from the evening.
John Oates announces new roots album ‘Arkansas’. A project which began as a tribute to Oates’ idol, the legendary American country blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt. For the album, he is joined by a strong stellar cast of musicians who go to make up The Good Road Band.
The Ben Miller Band have announced the release of Choke Cherry Tree via New West Records on January 26th, 2018. Watch their new video for “Akira Kurosawa”, a song about the influential Japanese film director and screenwriter.
