Hi folks, it's time for my annual best-of show, mostly in alphabetical order! Lots of great music this year from albums that came to my attention in 2021, despite a few being released the year before. Along the way I'll be flagging 6 albums as Gold Star Releases ⭐ and 5 as Honourable Mention 👈 to reflect my absolute top picks, but in my view all the albums below deserve your consideration as the best traditional music of 2021.
| Lesson in the Losing (feat. Taylor Ashton) Aerialists - Dear Sienna 
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| New Year Waltz Christina Alden & Alex Patterson - Hunter |
| Schooner Lane Beòlach - All Hands ⭐
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| Lassie, Lie Near Me Cara - Grounded |
| The Fire of Vengeance The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Jessie Summerhayes - Words of a Fiddler's Daughter: Rúnian⭐ |
| Never Give All the Heart Dave Curley - I Am of Ireland / Yeats In Song |
| The Maid of Culmore (feat. Sam Lakeman) [Live] Cara Dillon - Live at Cooper Hall (Live) [feat. Sam Lakeman]👈 |
| Improvisation on Bagpipes Fraser Fifield - Piobaireachd/Pipe Music ⭐ |
| Fathom Brian Finnegan - Hunger of the Skin 👈 |
| The Alabama (feat. Iona Fyfe) HAV - Haar |
| Three Galleys (feat. Sam Lee) Folkatron Sessions - Home No More - EP ⭐ |
| Good Crieff Gnoss - The Light of the Moon 👈 |
| Mairi Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach - Spiorachas - A High Place |
| The Meeting Grounds Ingrid Henderson - Message In a Bottle |
| From the East Ron Jappy - Vincular 👈 |
| An Tèid Thu Leam a Mhàiri? Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich - Càirdeas |
| Talk to Me of Mendocino Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan - Still as Your Sleeping ⭐ |
| ’S Cian ’s Gur Fad Tha Mi m’ Thàmh Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola - The Smoky Smirr O Rain |
| Fallow Ground Spiers & Boden - Fallow Ground 👈 |
| Emergency Operation Ross Ainslie - Vana ⭐ |
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