For the first time in 5 years, the much-loved Derbyshire-based performer Lucy Ward returns to the studio for a new UK-Icelandic-Canadian collaboration – Ward Knutur Townes. Watch the video ‘Unanswered’, the title track of their debut album.

The much-loved Alasdair Roberts is touring the UK, playing songs from his recent album, Grief in The Kitchen And Mirth In The Hall. Includes dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, London, Sheffield, Todmorden, Manchester, Glasgow and more.

Laura Veirs announces her new album Phone Orphans, which involved sorting through 900 voice memos – These songs have been hiding out on my phone…They are about my family, my lovers and me. I recorded them alone in my living room into my voice memo app.

Watch the video for “Don’t Go Back to Sleep”, the new single from Bex Burch – a twinkling piece of arcadian minimalism, that eavesdrops on an electro-acoustic conversation with the avian world.

Avalanche is Jenny Owen Youngs’ first full-length studio album in ten years and her Yep Roc label debut. While it has been a long time coming, much like the phenomenon of its title, it will sweep you up in its path.

Not yet 40, but with a voice and a heart grained by lifetimes beyond his years, Mick Flannery has long been a superstar in Ireland; it’s about time the rest of the world caught up – his outstanding ‘Goodtime Charlie’ should do the trick.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew feat. Adele H, Ichiko Aoba, No-No Boy, Lau Nau, Aux Meadows, JJJJJerome Ellis, Paolo Angeli, Spirit Fest, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Sally Anne Morgan, The Handsome Family, Maxine Funke, The Far Sound, Joseph Allred, Xylouris White, Josephine Foster & more.

Adele H’s voice is dripping with passion and personality, and the transition to piano-based songs on Impermanence has allowed that voice to flourish. It is a wonderful work of art, brimming with confidence and bursting with important questions about womanhood, metaphysics and music.

The quality of Michele Stodart’s new album ‘Invitiation’ is perfect…a highly personal album that emerges as one of strength, acceptance, resilience and ultimately hope in those transformations.

Taken from Documenting Snapshots, the new album from Gilmore & Roberts, watch their video for ‘I, Burnum Burnum’, based on the declaration read out by Australian Aboriginal activist Burnum Burnum, as he planted the Aboriginal flag on the beach in Dover on 26th January 1988.

On ‘Our Roots Run Deep‘, Dominique Fils-Aimé offers a humanist side to healing where mind, soul and body connect to word, rhythm and imagery. It’s an album that dreams in lush colours, a stunning work of folk-magic and fellowship.

‘So Far We Have Come’ has breathtaking and memorable moments, making it such a thoroughly intriguing and enjoyable album. In exploring the possibilities of melding English and Arabic folk traditions, Tamsin Elliott  & Tarek Elazhary have created a worthy addition to the musical canons of both cultures.