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Watch Alex Rex’s ‘Boss Morris’ video, a tribute to his favourite all-female Morris dancing side, the titular Boss Morris – energy, colour, self-invention and profound knowledge of the tradition all collapsed into something that has reinvigorated the form.

After 15 years of performing together, the much-loved Yorkshire folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow say farewell for now in order to explore other adventures that are beckoning to them. Don’t miss their final tour of their favourite venues.

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson’s long-awaited second album, Safe Travels, is released on 9th May. Watch them performing the heartfelt ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ live.

Listen to “Widdershins” an ornately decorated folk epistle that shares an existential fundament of Faun Fables’ worldview. Their new album, Counterclockwise, drops on May 30th.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her new album, Second Circle The Horizon. Listen to her first album single, “I Saw a Heron” – “I wanted to capture the feeling of walking outside and encountering organic nature sounds”

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lead single and video ‘Celyn’.

Ty Segall shares the title track of his new album Possession, with lyrics by longtime collaborator and filmmaker Matt Yoka. They “each acts as writer and editor as they throw the conceptual ball back and forth translating general vibes and feels into wicked lyric imagery.”

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.