Sarah Gillespie has shared a stop-motion film, created by Fini Bearman, for her new single “Molly of the Salt Sea”. The arrangements are playful and exploratory, over which Gillespie’s vocals unravel an equally engaging storytelling narrative.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy shares the video/single “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You”, the title track of his latest album that doesn’t appear on the album…instead it stands marvellously on its own. Watch the accompanying video directed by Adam Laity.
We get an insight into the highly anticipated, revamped theatrical production of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, which is set to open at the Lyric Theatre in February 2024, five years after its sold-out run at the National Theatre.
Taken from Brulée, the second in a triptych of albums from cabane (the collective project conceived by the Belgian musician and photographer thomas jean henri), watch the lyric video for ‘dead song Pt.1’, the beautiful new single featuring Sam Genders.
Harp, the new musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, have shared their new video for “A Fountain”, a song which recalls a heartbreak that Smith suffered and which finds him setting forth on his galleon…
Sung by Eileen Gogan and featuring Neil Farrell, listen to ‘The Female Cabin Boy’, the latest single in the Bring Your Own Hammer series. It’s an outstanding interpretation of a ballad that circulated in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.
Jane Weaver has revealed her new single ‘Love in Constant Spectacle’, accompanied by a new video animated by Kamran Kaur. “It’s about searching for joy, wanting to love and feel loved, then uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life…”
The Liverpool-based fiddle player and balladeer Mikey Kenney is on a very special headline tour now that you don’t want to miss. Check out his latest single and support grassroots music by buying those advance tickets.
The seminal Irish group, The Bothy Band, are to perform at Celtic Connections (on 22nd January at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall), featuring Donal Lunny, Tríona ní Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Glackin and Kevin Burke. They will be joined by Seán Óg Graham on guitar.
Harp, the musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, share their new single and lyric video, “Throne Of Amber”., taken from their forthcoming album ‘Albion’.
A painter, poet, songwriter and storyteller, Lancashire’s Toria Wooff’s mystical repertoire is steeped in gothic romanticism. Don’t miss her tour dates this month.
Ireland’s Anna Mieke shares her new single “Ornament,” a B-side off her acclaimed second album Theatre. The song, on which an entrancing soundscape creates a warm, golden atmosphere for her soothing and equally hypnotic vocals, is accompanied by a video directed by Véra Haddad.
