‘It All Goes Up’, the sixth album by Missouri resident, Beth Bombara, is the perfect summer road trip album; the songs will carry on delivering long after the sun goes down and the miles will fly by.

American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore announces her new album ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ and shares the video for lead single “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me”, featuring two of her closest friends — songwriter Meg Baird and accordionist composer Walt McClements.

“Sounding like a UFO slowly sinking into a peat bog” – Paradise of Bachelors announce new band project ‘Setting’ featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund. Listen to their lead single ‘Zoetropics’ from their debut album ‘Shone A Rainbow Light On’

Watch the video for Dublin City Bells, the new single from contemporary folk artist Lewis Barfoot, taken from her forthcoming second album, Home, due in November 2023. She is on tour in the UK in September.

At its core, William Matheny’s ‘That Grand, Old Feeling’ is an album about searching for meaning and purpose; he says, “Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent most of my life waiting for something to begin”. This deserves to be the start of something big.

Last month, Wren Hinds released his new album, Don’t Die in the Bundu, and in our album review, it was described as a timeless beauty. Listen to the album in full and enjoy Wren’s personal Track by Track guide.

Kent-born singer and multi-instrumentalist Will Page of Noble Jacks premieres his new single celebrating the Kent-based festival Broadstairs Folk Week that kicks off on August 12th. He says: “I hope I can inspire more young musicians to take up folk.”

Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly’s ‘The Beautiful Road’, is a calmative, a sonic balm in times of literal and metaphorical noise, but also a reminder of the verve and the life that can still exist in music. It’s an exceptional feat.

This Sunday, folksinging legend Shirley Collins is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She will be sharing eight tracks, a book and a luxury item that she would take with her if cast away to a desert island.

While ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’ is recognisably a Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album, it is also a slight departure. These songs have a life-affirming quality, a willingness to exist in the present, and as a result, this is one of Will Oldham’s most rewarding albums.

The Eliza Carthy Trio’s ‘Conversations We’ve Had Before’, on which David Delarre and Saul Rose join Eliza, is “one of the best traditional folk releases of the year so far.” A digital-only release, it is to be hoped that such an enigmatic and compelling album receives the attention that it deserves.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew ft. Sinead O’Connor, Seth Lakeman, Rachel Sermanni, Emma Gatrill, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Cormac Begley, Martin Simpson, Lonesome Ace Stringband, Jake Blount, Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, Hot Vultures, Clifton Hicks, Anna & Elizabeth, Mama’s Broke & more.