New Manx trio Barrule release a download single of a song from their forthcoming debut album to raise funds to help Isle of Man farmers reported to be facing “catastrophic” livestock losses in the island’s heaviest snowfall since 1963.

Folk Radio UK is sponsoring this year’s Hothouse Festival in Somerset on Saturday 6th April 2013. A one-day folk festival at Halsway Manor with a great line-up and more. Listen to our preview show this week!

Get a taster of Dark Dark Dark’s 10″ EP for Record Store Day featuring three tracks from their ‘Who Needs Who’ recording sessions. Nona’s vocals recall classic cuts from The Shangri-Las.

They are a young six-piece band based in Newcastle upon Tyne and are the UK’s answer to Pokey LaFarge. They are Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra and they will keep any joint jumping!

Devon troubadour John Smith has rubbed shoulders with some of the best folk artists on the scene and his latest release ‘Great Lakes’ makes it clear that he now deserves his place alongside them.

Simon Holland attends ‘The Mariner’s Children’ Sycamore EP launch at The Lexington which leaves him pondering and revisiting their dark and troubled romanticism way after the gig is over.

The award-winning, Wilderness festival, has today expanded its dynamic musical line-up for 2013, welcoming an array of exceptional talent to its carefully curated main stage including: Martha Wainwright and Sam Lee

We have a new Simple Folk Radio show this Sunday featuring LAISH in session who release their Obituaries album this month. The show is presented by Dillon Swinhoe, with Danny Green and Dan Harding of Laish.

Rayys is a new artist to the Folk Radio UK playlist who we only discovered this week. She has just released her new lovely psych-folk single ‘I’m Coming Home’ which is available from bandcamp.

Thirty Pounds of Bone is to release a new album in May titled: I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where. It features Darren Hayman (Hefner), Laurence Collyer (Diamond Family Archive) and more.

The young Brooklyn based indie quartet Swear & Shake put on a fine showcase at this year’s SXSW, their stage presence and confidence spells out a great future! Take a listen.

Watch the latest video from the talented Irish singer Róisín O for her new single Synchronicity which was filmed by the talented Myles O’Reilly. A song about finding that person who in many ways is your oposite.