rachel newton

The strength of Mairearad Green & Rachel Newton’s distinctive boundary-pushing “Anna Bhàn” doesn’t lie in nostalgia…it is history in the very living sense of the word, ripe and ardent, and not afraid to look forward.

Sealladh highlights Rachel Newton’s gift for subsuming visual reference points within a musical purview, coming up with melodies that are disarming, deceptively simple and utterly beautiful.

Heal & Harrow is a refreshingly original & carefully-crafted album, with musicianship & compositions of the highest quality. It illuminates the injustices inflicted on so many innocent women in the past, as well as drawing parallels to ongoing misogynistic attitudes and behaviour.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

Join Rachel Newton this coming Sunday as she listens to and discusses her new album ‘To The Awe’ on the Hudson Records Listening Club.

Beautifully produced, Rachel Newton’s “To The Awe” is a striking, pertinent, and entirely enthralling album. A powerful testament to the experiences of women through the ages.

Rachel Newton shares the title track and first single from her new album To The Awe. Watch the accompanying video by Marry Waterson.

Rachel Newton is set to release her fifth solo album later this year featuring Lauren MacColl, Mikey Owers, Sarah Hayes and Mattie Foulds. Tomorrow she will be sharing some of her new songs and talking about her process in an online sharing concert.

Rachel Newton releases digital EP ‘Everything I Know Without Knowing’ inspired by the poetry of Uxue Alberdi and Ciara MacLaverty. It was recorded by Mattie Foulds while she was working on ‘Throwing Voices’ during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Taken from their 2018 album Fathoms, our Song of the Day is ‘Down By The Greenwoodside’ by The Furrow Collective. Watch the accompanying new video by Maud Hewlings and catch them on tour during September.

“The Lost Words” finally reaches us in the form of Spell Songs. Composed by eight of folk’s finest contemporary talents: Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter, the songs bring us hope for the future.

Our Song of the Day is ‘A Token’, a song taken from Rachel Newton’s new album West which is also one of our Featured Albums of the Month. Don’t miss her solo tour this month including dates in London, Aberdeen, York and more.