Legendary guitarist and folk icon Wizz Jones has died. He passed away on Sunday morning (April 27th) at Trinity Hospice, two days after his 86th birthday.
Watch Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts performing ‘Màiri nighean Dòmhnaill’, the opening track of their new album ‘Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia’, out now on Drag City.
Featuring Méabh Begley (accordion, vocals), Owen Spafford (fiddle) and Cait Ni Riain (piano, vocals), watch The Weaving performing “My Bonnie Blue Eyed Lassie” live. They are on tour in June, and their debut album drops later this year.
Junior Brother shares his new single and striking new video, Small Violence, plus details of his forthcoming album, The End, to be released on Strap Originals. It marks an exciting new chapter for this increasingly distinctive Irish voice.
Japanese musician and songwriter Satomimagae has shared her third and final single ‘Tonbo’, taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Taba’ (out this Friday). Watch the accompanying video by longtime collaborator Norio.
Described as a joyfully irreverent psychedelic fantasia of folklore, free jazz, and avant-garde Blues, Chicago composer, improviser, instrumentalist, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay announces his new album and shares the title track single, Yowzers.
Last month, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers released their new album, Uncharted. Have a listen and read Rachael’s personal Track by Track guide to the album.
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Undercurrents’, watch the video for Matthew Young’s “The Summer Girls”, a setting of a poem by his aunt, Marion Lineaweaver, which also showcases his love for the hammered dulcimer.
Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul shares her latest single from her forthcoming album, Sunwise. An old vocal dance song dating from 1934 ‘She Went Astray’ “is all about the rhythm of the language.”
Taken from their highly-anticipated collaborative new album, The World That I Knew, listen to Varo’s latest single, Sweet Liberty, on which they are joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum.
This month sees the release of Adrianne Lenker’s 120-minute album, Live at Revolution Hall, on which she performs “a myriad of songs; some new, some rare, some favorites, and beyond, in front of an audience and behind the scenes.”
Yoshika Colwell has announced the release of her debut album ‘On The Wing’ and shares her new single and video ‘There’s Got To Be A Loser Babe’. “It is, at its core, an album about acceptance and release, and freedom from old binds.”
