Spanish born, American raised and now living in Cornwall, singer songwriter Sarah McQuaid is shortly releasing the St. Buryan Sessions, a live album (without audience) recorded in her local church. Coming in response to the pandemic, when live music was no longer...
Sam Robbins: Finally Feeling Young
Finally Feeling Young, the debut album from Nashville based singer songwriter Sam Robbins, might seem an unusual title for a musician not long out of college but this belies the two year crafting process, seeing Sam move from adolescent to adulthood, song by song. ...
Ziggy Alberts: Searching For Freedom
Australian singer songwriter Ziggy Alberts is Searching For Freedom, with his latest album of that name, released in March this year. The twelve tracks are a melodic, guitar driven, vocal journey into the world of human emotion. At times meditative, always delving...
Davie Furey: Haunted Streets
Sometimes an album hangs together so coherently that it becomes one piece of music; Irish singer songwriter Davie Furey's new album, Haunted Streets, is one such album. Featuring some of Ireland's top musicians, including Steve Wickham (The Waterboys), Darren Holden...
Michael Bernard Fitzgerald: Love Valley
One of the things we have learnt in 2020 is how much we value the small things in life; the intimacy of just being with someone, creating memories, feeling love, feeling at home. Although we may have valued those things before, it's taken a global pandemic for us to...
Rachael Sage: Character
The ever prolific New Yorker Rachael Sage releases her latest album, Character, this week. Written in the wake of a life-changing cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery period, Rachael Sage was forced to ask herself, “what comprises character?” Character is a...
Sadie Jemmett: Brave New Streams
Live music will never be the same again. Whatever your view on that statement, it's safe to say that for the time being at least, live music is a lot different. In this guest blog post, Sadie Jemmett tells us where lockdown has taken her music. Almost four months...
World Needs Changing: The Killing of George Floyd
Every so often something happens that makes the whole world stop and pay attention. Sadly, in the last few weeks, we have been shocked and stood still for the killing of George Floyd in America. #BlackLivesMatter is a statement that should be obvious and redundant -...