for the week of June 17th, 2014:
(listen to the latest show here)
(listen to the latest show here)
Northern Irish artist, Ciaran Lavery, releases his new record, Kosher, this week. The video for the first single, Left For America, has already garnered nearly 5,000 views on YouTube and the five track EP will be available from Bandcamp from today. It is Ciaran's first new work since last year's Not Nearly Dark album. This is the video for Left For America:
Irish band, Tupelo, release a new single this week. Called The Shifting Ground, it features respected Irish accordion and fiddle player, Sharon Shannon. The song appears on the band's latest album, Push On, and on their Facebook page, they will be running competitions to win signed copies. The band are shooting an official video for the single this week - but this is a live version of it:
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![]() Australian nu-grass band, Mustered Courage, have released a "road-map" poster image for their extensive, forthcoming US tour. The band arrive in America in late July and will be performing in 18 different states, on what they are calling their "Off To America" tour, before returning home to Australia in October. You can see the locations and dates on the image and you can find more details and links to buy tickets at their website. Their latest album is called Powerlines and will be released in the US on July 22nd. This is the very creative video for the title track:
And on the subject of creative, animated videos, English band Suburban Dirts, have released their video for the opening track from their latest album, A Tiny Little Island In The Big Bad Sea. This is Fire On The Campsite:
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Tracks by some of the artists featured on this page will be on The International Americana Music Show in the coming weeks.