As an artist, musician and award-winning composer for film and performing arts, Maja Långbacka has long created soundscapes for and with others – now she gathers all her experience in a debut album where her own unique vision finally finds a place on her own terms.

Trezz Palombas brings a compilation of several versions of the same ballad found all over Europe and beyond combining versions of the “Cancionero del Franco Rico” or “Romance de Isabel” (Spain, Portugal) with “El Maurico Franco – Tres palombas van volando” (Sephardic) and finally the “Ballade van Serolewijn” or “Heer Halewijn” (Flanders and The Netherlands)

His first solo album Personal Piano was nominated for the Spellemannprisen in 2016 and now the sequel Lokalt Piano will be released in 2026. He has participated in several bands and on around 150 albums, including A-ha, In the Country, The National Bank, Solveig Slettahjell Slomo Quintet, Susanne Sundfør, Arve Henriksen, Thomas Dybdahl, Martin Hagfors, Ingrid Olava, The Budding Rose, Marit Larsen, Nils Petter Molvær, Shining, Jaga Jazzist, Benedicte Maurset and Susanna and the Magical Orchestra.

Anointed as the queen of American folk music by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Odetta Gordon, a coloratura soprano, was born Odetta Holmes on December 31, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

They Call Us The Lucky Ones is a road-worn portrait of modern Americana — songs about movement, memory, love, and survival, exploring the space between freedom and consequence where highways replace homes and connection becomes the true measure of success. The album tells stories of outsiders and drifters, chosen family and lost friends, broken systems and restless ambition — and the ghosts we carry no matter how far we run.

Jobi Riccio knows that while a quiet heart-to-heart can solve many problems, sometimes the heart needs a giant, all-caps billboard, especially when the world around that massive sign gets louder by the day. As each new track on her new album Face the Feeling (due May 15th via Yep Roc Records) unveils, Riccio faces another inescapable emotion as if it were a billboard screaming into view as she hurtles down the highway. And rather than turn away from their challenge, Riccio faces those uncomfortable moments with the thrill of self-discovery, reveling in growth and change as facts of life.

Lemoncello, the Dublin based duo of singer songwriter Laura Quirke and cellist arranger Claire Kinsella, release their second album, Perfect Place, via Claddagh Records. Co-produced by Ruth O’Mahony Brady (Lisa O’Neill, Gorillaz) in Dublin, Perfect Place evolves from the band’s folk soaked roots of their critically acclaimed 2024 self-titled debut, the record encompasses full band recordings that weave synths and electronic percussion into the duo’s organic sound.

Emmy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, and composer Ingrid Michaelson releases 1st new solo record in five years. "I haven't released a full-length solo record since 2019," Michaelson said. "I really wanted to put something out in the world that felt a little different from what I had released before, but also kind of a returning home. Something a little quieter, something a little hopeful, something for those of us who can't help but keep dreaming despite the darkness, and all under the sonic umbrella of the vintage vibes of decades past. Most recently, Ingrid composed and shepherded the highly-acclaimed Original Broadway Cast Recording of The Notebook on Atlantic Records.

Discover 10 contemporary singer-songwriters inspired by American roots music traditions on Putumayo’s new Folk Café collection.

Sandrayati Fay embarks on a musical journey that intertwines the ethereal with the deeply personal. Born to activist parents and raised in the lush landscapes of Indonesia, she now calls Reykjavík home. Her unique sound—described often as a blend of ethereal folk, indie-pop, and ambient textures—celebrates themes of identity, migration, and indigenous rights, intricately woven into her lyrics. One could say her upbringing was steeped in a sense of purpose; a certain weight of expectation, perhaps, but she has transformed it into art.

Six-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree Amy Grant has announced her new album The Me That Remains, arriving May 8 via Thirty Tigers. Produced by ten-time CMA Award winner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Mac McAnally, the project marks Grant’s first collection of all-original songs in 13 years.

It took two decades of acclaimed songwriting for Ben Musser to make his solo debut.

LEAVING CALIFORNIA was originally released in 2021. This new Expanded 5 Year Anniversary Edition includes the original album plus newly-arranged and recorded renditions of two of the songs. When the band reformed in Vermont back in 2022, we adapted two songs from this album for our live sets, changing the instrumentation and adding new material. Although recorded in the studio, these new versions contain minimal overdubs and production, to better represent the immediacy of the live band. Leaving California may be our sunniest, most heartfelt album to date, and we’re happy to finally be able to bring it back out into the light.

Emily Portman returns with Dominion of Spells, her fourth studio album of original songs and her first solo release in a decade, reclaiming her voice after the shock release of two fake AI-generated albums issued in her name. The album is a powerful reaffirmation of human creativity.