Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
We head back to the Embankment, Tallaght, Co.Dublin 1976 for today’s Song of the Day, a great horse-racing classic – ‘Plains of Kildare’. It’s performed by Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.
Watch the new video from Marina Florance for Two People, her new single. Simple in concept, with still-photos of people of all ages dancing, the video provides a welcome dose of nostalgia and draws you in with it’s universally appealing theme.
Husband and wife duo The Handsome Family share new video for Gold, their latest single from their forthcoming 10th studio album Unseen, due for release on 16 September via Loose.
Our Song of the Day comes via Irish singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power with It’s Clearing Now. We also have a lovely home-recording video of her performing ‘As I Roved Out’, a song that I’ve long associated with Andy Irvine. Don’t miss her UK Tour Dates.
Watch Andrew Bird performing alongside John C. Reilly and Tom Brosseau. Mixing the old with the new they perform an old traditional song from The Carter Family repertoire and a track from his ‘Are You Serious’ album.
Tompkins Square announce the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem compiled by hardcore record collectors Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice. It features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard.
Watch a new video from Peter Doran and Brian Murphy for Blackberry Wine, the fruits of a new joint project that also provides our Song of the Day. The song was inspired by a book about the life of Billie Holiday.
Our Song of the Day comes from Sam Brookes performing Pacify with the London Contemporary Voices for a Headphones Session. This is a new track of Sam’s not heard before which will be part of a new project of music coming out very soon.
Northern Ireland based five-piece traditional Irish band Connla recently released their debut album River Waiting. Watch their latest video for Daily Growing and catch them on their UK tour in September.
North Carolina’s bluegrass duo, Mandolin Orange announce new album Blindfaller and share their first single Wildfire ”a country dirge with soulful washes of pedal steel and mandolin, the song details the lingering, present-day devastation of slavery and the Civil War.
The Henry Girls have shared their latest video for Falling in Love Again, a song from their recently released EP Sketches. It was filmed around their homeland of Malin, Co.Donegal and also in the Men’s Shed in Moville.
