East Anglian folk duo Honey & The Bear deliver a beautiful cover of Sandy Denny’s timeless classic ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes’. The accompanying video was filmed before the duo’s show at Folkeast 2024 in the gorgeous landscape of The Glemham Hall Estate.

John Spillane announces a hugely ambitious concept album – a two-hour Gaelic folk opera ‘Fíoruisce – The Legend of the Lough’ and shares the first track and video, ‘Réamhcheol/Overture’, featuring Niamh Farrell and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin.

While Dorothy Carter missed out on experiencing the sudden mad rush of creativity that her music helped to inspire, the reissue of Troubadour, with its singular, strange and beautiful tunes, is a good sign that her star is once again in the ascendency.

Featuring several special guests, including Cathal McConnell, Liz Knowles, Brían Mac Gloinn, Anaïs Mitchell and Will Oldham, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary’s Hydra features an excellent selection of superbly sung songs and handsome melodies. It doesn’t get much better.

Alasdair Roberts’ book of collected lyrics, Library of Aethers, is out now, and he also kicks off a collaborative UK tour this month with Scottish piper and traditional singer Donald WG Lindsay.

In the second of our Wickham Festival interview-shorts, Johnny Whalley catches up with Katherine Priddy, who chats about her recent musical journey and her third album.

A nautical-themed Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Lisa Knapp, Jolie Holland, Oisin Leech, Georgia Shackleton, Louis Killen, Sea Song Sessions, Rhiannon Giddens, Bellowhead, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy, Richard Thompson, Ben Nicholls & Nadine Shah, Shovel Dance Collective, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Frankie Archer and Robin Williamson.

Taylor McCall has released The Porch Sessions EP. McCall says, “The Porch Sessions are an intimate batch of outdoor recordings done with myself and Sean McConnell. I wanted to break down the artificial veils of the studio and bring the listeners onto my porch.”

Bluenose B, aka Stephen Lawson, speaks for itself. With top-drawer production values, Minstrel Of The Wasteland is often compelling, always accomplished and polished, but, above all, a most satisfying, rewarding and enjoyable listen.

We catch up with Muireann Bradley at Wickham Festival. The 17 year old blues and folk guitarist and singer from Ballybofey in County Donegal, Ireland released her debut album last year on Tompkins Square.

It’s not often one comes across a musician of the calibre of David Berkeley or an album as pure as A Pail Full of Fire. It springs from a place of honesty where words and music still matter. This is an album for the ages.

Jolie Holland shares provocative new video for ‘Feet on the Ground’ – “A piece of pure love and art…made by the astounding duo of Corinne Loperfido and Jordan Mose – Clowns Against Human Supremacy (NSFW).