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Following the release of “Remembered in Exile,” a collection of newly crafted arrangements of traditional Scottish songs pulled from the pioneering work of folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1989), Màiri Morrison, Alasdair Roberts and Pete Johnston have announced a UK tour in October. To celebrate, watch an all-new acoustic version of “The Bonny House of Airlie”.

Scottish folk duo Donald WG Lindsay and Alasdair Roberts announce their first duo album, Welcome Home My Dearie. Recorded live in Glasgow, the album features a unique blend of pipes, guitars, and vocals, with traditional and original songs. The duo is currently fundraising to cover production costs for a 500-copy CD run. Watch them perform a set of jigs and a bothy ballad, Jock Hawk’s Adventures in Glasgow.

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.

Following their 2012 debut, Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts reunite on ‘Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia’. It’s a beautiful and glimmering album on which they also demonstrate how to wring intense emotions from the most minimal of ingredients.

Alasdair Roberts and Màiri Morrison share their catchy new single, “The Bonny House of Airlie”. Watch the accompanying video, featuring photos of the crew’s trip to Nova Scotia to record the album.

In 2012, Alasdair Roberts and Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri Morrison released their debut album Urstan. Today, they announce their long-awaited follow-up on Drag City – Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia. Listen to their lead single ‘Màiri Nighean Dòmhnaill’.

Alasdair Roberts’ book of collected lyrics, Library of Aethers, is out now, and he also kicks off a collaborative UK tour this month with Scottish piper and traditional singer Donald WG Lindsay.

In 2005 a film was made of the Green Man Festival in Wales. It has been unreleased and unseen for nearly 20 years and features performances by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Alasdair Roberts and Joanna Newsom, among others.

The much-loved Alasdair Roberts is touring the UK, playing songs from his recent album, Grief in The Kitchen And Mirth In The Hall. Includes dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, London, Sheffield, Todmorden, Manchester, Glasgow and more.

We revisit Alasdair Roberts and Robin Robertson’s ‘Hirta Songs’, inspired by the people, landscape and history of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. The album also featured Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band and Scottish harpist Corrina Hewat.

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall’, Alasdair Roberts releases his new single today, ‘The Bonny Moorhen’. Watch the accompanying captivating stop frame animation video by Jonathan Farr.

On Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, Alasdair Roberts’ performances are musically exquisite, while his singing has never sounded so emotionally charged. The quality of Roberts’ music is astoundingly high, and nearly three decades into his career, that shows no sign of letting up.

Our Song of the Day comes from Alasdair Robert’s with his new single, The Lichtbob’s Lassie, taken from his forthcoming traditional folk album ‘Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall’.

Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts has shared his latest single, ‘Eppie Morrie’, taken from his forthcoming new album Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional folk songs.

Watch Scottish musician Alasdair Roberts and Irish musician Brigid Mae Power performing ‘The Blacksmith’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland as part of their Myth, Story, Song series.

Alasdair Roberts and Völvur’s “The Old Fabled River” is full of subtle mirrors, the dualism and continuity of life, pairs and opposites…a satisfyingly literary accomplishment, but also humane and wild and as vividly detailed as we’ve come to expect from anything Roberts is involved in.

Taken from Alasdair Roberts and Völvur’s collaborative album “The Old Fabled River”, watch Völvur’s solo rendition of their arrangement of “Nu solen går ned”, a Norwegian spiritual and an ancient traditional melody.

On 23 July, Drag City will release ‘The Old Fabled River’, a collaboration between Alasdair Roberts and the Norwegian group Völvur…a melding of Celtic and Scandinavian intuitions of culture and music. Taken from the album, listen to the new album single Orison of Union and also watch Alasdair perform a solo rendition.