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Saturday December 30, 2023 - Best Of 2023 - Part One: 2023 has seen some incredible new releases across the spectrum of musical styles we think of as "roots". Here is my first stab at my favourite selections of the year (Part Two next week!)
| # | Artist | Song Title | Album (label) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Street | Music For A Found Harmonium | Irish Times | |
| 2 | Anoushka Shankar | Daydreaming (feat. Nils Frahm) | Chapter I: Forever. For Now | |
| 3 | Alam Khan & Arjun K. Verma w/ Del Sol Quartet | Awaken | The Resonance Between | |
| 4 | Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabate | Anywhere That Is Not Here | The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere | |
| 5 | Tinariwen | Ezlan (feat. Fats Kaplin) | Amatssou | |
| 6 | Trio Da Kali | Laeydoe w/ Michael McGoldrick | Live at Celtic Connections 2023 | |
| 7 | Vumbi Dekula | Zuku | Congo Guitar | |
| 8 | Keturah | Sukulu | Keturah | |
| 9 | Kavita Shah | Amor di mundo (ft. Bau) | Cape Verdean Blues | |
| 10 | Oriane Lacaille | Je Suis La Fleur | iViV | |
| 11 | Okan | No Volvi | Okantomi | |
| 12 | Bokanté | Adjoni | History | |
| 13 | Cherry Bandora | Mia Dekara | Back To The Taverna | |
| 14 | Altin Gün | Badi Sabah Olmadan | a?k | |
| 15 | So Long Seven | world now (we're old) | only elephants know her name | |
| 16 | Samaïa | Pa Oen-me Bihanik | Songlines #188 Top of the World | |
| 17 | Rhiannon Giddens | Too Little. Too Late. Too Bad | You're the One | |
| 18 | Hazmat Modine | Walk it Off | Bonfire | |
| 19 | Sultans Of String Feat. Crystal Shawanda | The Rez | Walking Through The Fire | |
| 20 | William Prince | Tanqueray | Stand in the Joy | |
| 21 | Shakura S'Aida | Clap Yo Hands And Moan | Hold On To Love | |
| 22 | Michael Jerome Browne | Coffee Blues | Gettin' Together | |
| 23 | Muireann Bradley | Richland Woman Blues | I Kept These Old Blues | |
| 24 | Doug Cox & Linda McRae | Beyond The Great Pause | Beyond The Great Pause | |
| 25 | Iris DeMent | Workin' on a World | Workin' on a World | |
| 26 | Leftover Salmon | Simple Twist of Fate | Grass Roots | |
| 27 | Steve Dawson | A Gift | Eyes Closed. Dreaming | |
| 28 | The Faux Paws | Good Song | Backburner | |
| 29 | Colleen Rennison | Crawling on The Ceiling | Persephone | |
| 30 | Kyle McKearney | Somethin' Ain't Right | A Traveler's Lament | |
| 31 | Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | White Rabbit | Single | |
| 32 | Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | Alice in the Bluegrass | City of Gold | |
| 33 | Lonesome Ace Stringband | You'll Be There | Try to Make it Fly | |
| 34 | Sarah Jane Scouten | Wilder When I Was With You | Turned to Gold | |
| 35 | The Pairs | Sunday To Tuesday | Where Will We Find Our Way | |
| 36 | Connie Kaldor | Woman Who Pays | Keep Going | |
| 37 | Karan Casey | Sister I Am Here For You | Nine Apples Of Gold | |
| 38 | * Eliza Carthy Trio | Go From My Window / Whitefriars Hornpipe | Conversations We've Had Before | |
| 39 | The Mary Wallopers | Rakes of Poverty | Irish Rock N Roll | |
| 40 | Doolin' | L'Amour Sorcier (feat. Bumcello) | Circus Boy | |
| 41 | Laura Risk | Le Rimouski | Traverse | |
| 42 | Genticorum | Le brandy des montagnes noires | Au Coeur de l'Aube | |
| 43 | La Bottine Souriante | C’est dans Paris | Domino! | |
| 44 | Locarno | Cupido | Single | |
| 45 | Ímar | Splinter O'Neill | Awakening | |
| 46 | Rachel Davis & Darren McMullen w/ Zakk Cormier | The Galway Hornpipe / Sheepskin & Beeswax / Buntata 's Sgadan / The Antrim Rose | Celtic Colours Live Vol. 10 | |
| 47 | Plúirín Na mBan | Curragh Wrens | Female RamblingSailor | |
| 48 | Reverie Road | The Gap Of Dreams: Hardiman's Fancy / Girl of the Big House / Gap of Dreams | Reverie Road | |
| 49 | Inn Echo | All Nighter Polkas | Hemispheres | |
| 50 | The Irish Rovers | Hey Boys Sing Us A Song | Irish Music Magazine Sampler 2023 | |
| 51 | Réalta | Skidoo | Thing of the Earth | |
| 52 | Miscellany Of Folk | John Walsh’s / Upperchurch | Atlantic Sounds | |
| 53 | Daimh | If It Plays: If It Plays In Peoria / Hit The Toad / Samhradh Beag an Damhair | Sula | |
| 54 | Frankie Archer | Peacock Followed the Hen | Never So Red | |
| 55 | Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening | High Way to Hermitage | Cloud Horizons | |