Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to another year of traditional music from the British Isles and beyond.
This morning we look back at music that came to my attention and onto our airwaves in 2015. As every year, I'm playing the best albums in alphabetical order. Along the way I'll be identifying a few Gold Star Releases that I've particularly loved, with a few honourable mentions thrown in to boot.
White Birds Altan - The widening gyre - Compass |
Tale of two dragons Calan - Dinas - Sain [HM] |
Jimmie's Cassie & Maggie - Sterling road - Self [GS] ![]() |
All around my hat The friends of Fiddler's Green - Old inventions - Self [GS] ![]() |
Whisky you're the devil Bella Hardy - battleplan - Noe |
Great uncle Henry / Waiting for rain Rob Harbron / Emma Reid - Flock & Fly - Self [GS] |
Never ever lay them down Nancy Kerr - Sweet visitor - Little Dish [HM] |
It's a square world / Cossack square Leveret - New Anything - Self [HM] |
Great big sea Keith Murphy - Suffer no loss - Black Isle [GS] ![]() |
Llwynog 9Bach - Tincian - Realworld |
Tom in the front Peatbog Faeries - Blackhouse - Self |
What you do with what you've got Qristina & Quinn Bachand - Little hinges - Self [HM] ![]() |
Letty lee Norah Rendell - Spinning yarns - Two tap [GS] ![]() |
Roses three Greg Russell / Ciaran Algar - The call - Fellside '14 [HM] |
Dark honey Simpson / Cutting / Kerr - Murmurs - Topic [GS] |
The scorpian / The devil's breath hornpipe Shooglenifty - The untied knot - Shoogle |
The whelker Sketch - Highland time - Self |
You won't find me on benefits street The young'uns - Another man's ground - Self |
London lights Maz O'Connor - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 [VA] - Proper |
Great to hear Shooglenifty
12:53 PM, January 3rd, 2016