As always, my new year program is a retrospective of the best albums we shared together for the first time last year.
Along the way I'll be flagging 5 Gold Star Releases ⭐ and 5 Honourable Mentions 👈 to reflect my absolute top picks, but in my view all the albums below deserve your consideration as the best traditional music of 2022.
Meet Briony Words of a Fiddler's Daughter - The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth 👈 |
Cardrona Auka - Evergreen |
Polska Efter Jöns Persson elise boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray - Fiddle Tunes 👈 |
Revolutions Breabach - Fàs |
The Shelf Dermot Byrne, Éamonn Coyne & John Doyle - Liag |
Marit's The Canny Band - The Canny Band 👈 |
The Snow It Melts the Soonest Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Queen of the Whirl |
The Cottonwoods Shane Cook & the Woodchippers - Be Here for a While 👈 |
Heather on the Hill (feat. Alfred Arsenault) Cédric Dind-Lavoie - Archives ⭐ |
Steam The Drystones - Vulpus 👈 |
Strathspeys and Reels Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie, Steven Byrnes - Las ⭐ |
After Hours Elephant Sessions - For the Night |
Fair Winds Fara - Energy Islands |
Sprig of Thyme Bella Hardy - Love Songs |
Crow Flies Mànran - Ùrar |
Child Among the Weeds Lady Maisery - Tender |
Teannaibh Dlùth (feat. Sian) Niteworks - A' Ghrian ⭐ |
When First I Came to Caledonia Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage - Ink of the Rosy Morning |
Escape That Sam Sweeney - Escape That ⭐ |
September Sea TRIP - A Drop For Neptune |
Aura Talisk - Dawn ⭐ |
Always good to hear your choices for best releases of the past year
12:02 PM, January 8th, 2023