Underscoring both her skill as a storyteller and her background as a musical ethnologist alongside her songwriting craft and understated, intimate and engaging vocals, if North Star was a coming of age, Carey’s third album marks her blossoming into a rich maturity.
Sandwood is the latest offering from Duncan Chisholm. It draws its inspiration from a single location in Sutherland, the furthest northwest part of mainland Scotland. This is music in which to immerse ourselves, allow our minds to build our own links and maybe, one day, to visit.
One week ahead of the highly anticipated Bothy Culture & Beyond, the return of The GRIT Orchestra to Celtic Connections, The Martyn Bennett Trust has uncovered a promo video that was shot 20 years ago for Tongues of Kali.
Ahead of its release on 26th January, listen in full to Kyle Carey’s new album ‘The Art of Forgetting’. Produced by Dirk Powell and featuring Sam Broussard, John McCusker, Ron Janssen, Kai Welch, Mike McGoldrick and Rhiannon Giddens.
We Are The Wildlife, the solo debut of Brona McVittie whose name has been cropping up more and more frequently in the more expansive and experimental subsets of the folk music world. This is one of the most distinctive debuts you are likely to hear all year.
Watch ‘Banks of Inverurie’, the new single and video from Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe. It features on her forthcoming new album ‘Away From My Window’ out 24th March 2018.
The Wishing Tree is, believe it or not, the first studio recording by the redoubtable trio of John Doyle, John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick. An exceptional album that has to be a front-runner for album of the year.
Whether you’re already a fan or not, this live album is an indispensable addition to Christy Moore’s canon of work. A quintessential release from a national legend.
The most arresting and impressive aspects of Sanctuary are not the message and the direction the music is coming from – it’s the music itself. The writing and musicianship shine in what is easily Ross Ainslie’s most impressive album so far.
Listen in full to We are the Wildlife – the forthcoming debut solo LP from celebrated Irish folk chanteuse and harpist Brona McVittie – a psycho-geographic journey through a collection of traditional folk ballads and original compositions.
Assembly Lane’s dynamic arrangements of traditional and contemporary material on their self-released debut take us another step on the way forward for traditional music.
Prog-folk quintet Aerialists release their debut full-length album Group Manoeuvres in the UK this month. To celebrate, they are touring in the UK for the first time including Celtic Connections.
