Following his 2006 Carolling & Crumpets, the English folk squeezebox maestro John Kirkpatrick delivers a midwinter treat with a new Christmas collection titled ‘Joy & Jubilation’. He is accompanied by members of the South Shropshire ‘Castle Carols’, and his son Benji also features.

Edinburgh-based folk/old-time quartet Wayward Jane, featuring Dan Abrahams, Sam Gillespie, Rachel Petyt and Michael Starkey, announce their third album ‘The Flood’, and premiere their video for ‘Crossing Over Water’, a song Rachel wrote in response to hearing about migrants trying to move to safer places.

Hiss Golden Messenger have stumbled upon a weird kind of alchemy; through their sense of magic, they are able to bind belief with reality in a way that lets you know there is only one choice: Jump for Joy.

Canadian singer-songwriter Jerry Leger announces his new studio album ‘Donlands’ and shares the single and video “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” – “The video was filmed at the Imperial Pub in Toronto, which has been there since the ’40s and is one of the few remaining pubs of its type in the big city.”

An emotive blend of song and oratory, Blind Boys Of Alabama’s “Echoes of the South” seeks the core of Divine-human relationships. No simplistic pleas for salvation; these are stories of how we might live when facing hardship or the loss of hope.

Watch the beautiful animated video for ‘Thistle’, in which visual artist Alemşah Fırat translates Sophie Janna’s song, about hope in times of climate change, into a magical realistic narrative.

Georgia Shackleton announces her debut solo album ‘Harry’s Seagull’, and shares lead single and video ‘Windy Old Weather’ – a traditional folk song popular within the East Anglian fishing community but not so widely found elsewhere.

We chat with Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly about their new album, The Beautiful Road, a work of graft and craft as well as exceptional artistry: music like this isn’t just plucked out of the air; it is the result of a serious and well-defined working relationship, nurtured over a period of years.

Eliza Skelton’s The Lookerer is a haunting and beguiling album that entrances with its excitingly lush sound world. Her assured yet gentle and mysteriously captivating voice binds the disarmingly otherworldly vibe of the musical settings with the down-to-earth mysticality of her lyrical and philosophical vision.

With ‘Dandelion Breeze’, The Clements Brothers have delivered a terrific album that unassumingly and softly seeps into your soul and stakes its claim as one of the year’s best debuts.

Our Song of the Day comes from Niamh Bury. Watch her performing her debut single, Beehive, live in Phoenix Park, Dublin. It’s not just her balletic vocals that stay with you after hearing this song, but also her tender and deeply poetic lyrics.

Our latest Track by Track comes from Manx blues guitarist and singer Davy Knowles with his new album ‘If I should Wander’. While musically, it is a departure from the music he’s best known for; it’s also his most striking album to date.