Folk In The Park have announced the return of their one-day festival to Sutton this summer featuring Nick Lowe, Del Amitri, Iain Matthews, Danny and the Champions of the World, Hannah White, Roseanne Reid, Matt Owens and more.

Steve Gunn, John Truscinski and Bill Nace’s ‘Glass Band’ is an unpretentiously experimental and adventurous album, with lots to discover and each player bringing plenty to the table. It rewards, perhaps even demands, repeated listens, which is certainly no hardship.

It’s a sensitive, humble, yet skilled arrangement on show on amrwd and one that works incredibly well. Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes’ masterful playing thrills throughout, and the considered compositions constantly surprise and please. It’s a delightful recording and evidence that Welsh folk is in very safe hands.

UK guitarist Dean McPhee has announced the release of his fifth LP ‘Astral Gold’, which combines influences from Dub, Underground Electronic Music, Kosmische, Post Rock & British Folk. It is his first release on his new ‘Bass Ritual’ label.

A crate-diggers delight arrives on September 15th from Jalopy Records. ‘The Secret Museum of Mankind – Atlas of Instruments, Fiddles, Vol. 1’ features fiddle music recorded in the first half of the 20th century from Oxfordshire to Madagascar.

With such a fine collection of traditional tunes and an inventive and light-hearted set of new compositions, Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy’s Élan is an energising, inspiring and precious delight.

Pōneke/Wellington-based Ebony Lamb has just announced she’s signed with Nadia Reid’s label Slow Time Records, and to celebrate, she’s sharing her brand new single and video ‘My Daughter My Sister My Son’.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew feat. Dorival Caymmi, Sean Gray, King Creosote, Guy Capecelatro III, Buffalo Daughter, Dengue Fever, P.G. Six, John Prine & Kelsey Waldon, Doug Paisley, Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Neill, Howe Gelb, Jerry Jeff Walker, Wax Machine, The Nude Party and more.

Sam Blasucci’s ‘Off My Stars’ illustrates how to live in a world where contradictions can be celebrated, and music exists as a pathway to be traversed – where the focus is more on the song than style or technique.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her third solo album ‘Carrying’ and shares lead single ‘The Center’, on which she showcases her more lush, elaborate arrangements; it’s also our Song of the Day.

The grace in the music and the subtle touches of shading bring the songs on Wren Hinds’s ‘Don’t Die in the Bundu’ to life, unfurling slowly like the waltz of time. He has found the elusive charms that charge this disc with timeless beauty.

The innovative Scottish smallpipes player and experimental music purveyor Brìghde Chaimbeul has a busy few months ahead. She’ll be making plenty of festival appearances, delivering both solo and collaborative performances. We take a look back at her album releases to date.