The Brothers Gillespie

Hirondelle, a collaborative project between The Brothers Gillespie, Trio Mythos and Provençal dialect polyphonic trio Tant Que Li Siam is a “project of roots and wings”. It thoroughly deserves not only to fly but to soar.

Taken from his new album True North and recorded live on Tyne and Wear’s highest point, Currock Hill, watch Johnny Campbell performing ‘Here’s the Tender Coming / The Keel Row’ with Northumbrian duo The Brothers Gillespie.

Edinburgh-based folk/old-time quartet Wayward Jane, featuring Dan Abrahams, Sam Gillespie, Rachel Petyt and Michael Starkey, announce their third album ‘The Flood’, and premiere their video for ‘Crossing Over Water’, a song Rachel wrote in response to hearing about migrants trying to move to safer places.

There is an undefinable excellence to be found in the sibling vocals of The Brothers Gillespie. When combined with their gentle and varied instrumental arrangements found on ‘The Merciful Road’, their music becomes the complete gold standard package.

British Folk duo The Brothers Gillespie launch crowdfunder for ‘The Merciful Road’, an album inspired by the grace of life in troubled times. Get on board.

Across the whole breadth of ‘The Fell’ there is a kind of alchemy at work: The Brothers Gillespie use ostensibly simple musical ingredients to create songs that feel like classics in the making. The Fell shows off British acoustic music in its best possible light.

North Tyne troubadours The Brothers Gillespie announce new album The Fell – “inspired by the still wild soul of the land in which we live, a land alive with presences, not owned by anyone.” Watch them performing ‘Coventina’s Daughter’, our Song of the Day.

Brothers James and Sam Gillespie describe themselves as North Tyne troubadours – this debut album is entirely captivating and is surely destined to become one of my albums of 2016.