Allison Russell announces her new album ‘The Returner’, featuring her “Rainbow Coalition” band of all-female musicians and described as a fierce declaration of joy for all survivors that have made it to the other side. Watch her new title track visualiser video.

A thoughtful and reflective album, Ben Harper’s ‘Wide Open Light’ has a quiet strength and emotional depth in its minimalism. His past albums have accrued eight Grammy nominations and three wins. This should add to both tallies.

Watch the latest music video from Chicago-based folk rock project Judson Claiborne. Number One Transgression is taken from ‘Live Active Culture (Vol 1); described as a witty, witchy, dreamy, experimental, affectionate, and politically astute companion for our times.

Ben Chasny and Rick Tomlinson “drank delicious beer on sunny afternoons and had fantastic dinners” while recording ‘Waves’… an album in which we feel the warm vibrations of their dreams and visions.  

With ‘In the Air’, Anna St. Louis has crafted a work that reaches beyond the moment, laying out messages that reverberate truth. She is a talent deserving to be heard.

Our Monday Morning Brew features Rosie Miles, Broadside Hacks, Lankum, Ensemble Ériu, Amy May Ellis, Freda D’Souza, Liz Hanks, Shirley Collins, Lisa O’Neill, Libby Rodenbough, TRÚ, Gnoss, Pumajaw, Elspeth Anne, Alasdair Roberts, Lunatraktors, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay, Karine Polwart & Kris Drever, Chris Bain, and more.

This week’s Folk Show features music from Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex, Lankum, Joshua Burnside, Shirley Collins, Liz Hanks, Lisa O’Neill, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay, Freda D’Souza, Carlene, Elkhorn and The Saxophones.

Our Tune of the Day is ‘Rain Shimmer’, the new single from Balladeste, featuring violinist Preetha Narayanan and cellist Tara Franks. It’s taken from their forthcoming album ‘Conversations in Ritual’, an entirely improvised album that takes the listener on a deep sonic journey.

On her forthcoming new album Shorelines, Nuala Kennedy explores the representation of women in traditional song. Featuring a number of special guests and some beautiful arrangements, the songs are deeply engaging, as you can hear on her new single and video – ‘Sally Sits Weeping’.

On ‘Land’, an immersive album of depth and subtlety, Liz Hanks helps us understand how a place changes over time. She reads her surroundings like a vast physical palimpsest, peeling away roads and buildings to examine the earthy underbelly, the strata of human activity and natural change.

Hiss Golden Messenger announce their new album ‘Jump for Joy‘ and share the video for their first single “Nu-Grape”. You can hear Aoife O’Donovan and Amy Helm on the chorus that channels American poet Mary Oliver. Musically, lyrically, and conceptually, it is unlike any previous album.

For their third album, the Astoria, Oregon duo The Hackles are joined by Halli Anderson of River Whyless and Horse Feathers for an album that lives up to its title “What a Beautiful Thing I Have Made”.