Listen to the track ‘Fly Fishing’, featuring Scottish poet Jim Macintosh, taken from Hamish Napier’s new digital release An t’Each Uisge (The Water-Horse). It reflects on Jim’s childhood, and his father’s love hate relationship with fly fishing.

Juni Habel’s Carvings is a captivating musical and poetic experience, a fearless conception that is thoroughly contemporary while almost traditional in its authenticity of expression and directness of communication. Juni is a voice that needs to be heard.

Featuring tunes from Cyril Cyril, Tom Rosenthal, Adrian Crowley, Damien Jurado, Kacy & Clayton, White Fence, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Big Thief, Simon Joyner, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Luluc, Laura Veirs, Buck Meek, Sam Burton, Herman Düne, Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures, Cate Le Bon, Micah P. Hinson, Thirty Pounds of Bone, Drakkar Sauna and Kevin Morby.

John McCusker’s ‘The Best Of’ is an ideal introduction to the breadth and depth of one of the very best traditional musicians working today…a rare musician whose fiddle style and overall production sound is both distinctive and alluring.

Featuring Juni Habel, Lauren Oxford, Sheila K Cameron, The Hermit, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Nat Brookes, Milkweed, Bill Callahan, Fiona Soe Paing, Rev Simpkins, Black Ox Orkestar, Nathan Salsburg, James Yorkston, Joseph Decosimo, Sunburned Hand of The Man, Denis Cassiere and more.

Listen to our Winter themed Folk Mixes and Playlists alongside some guest mixes we’ve featured over the years from Michael Tanner, Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band), Salad Sound System and Nigel Spencer of Folk Police Recordings.

Here are our favourite Top 100 folk and alternative albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by our core writers.

The Sidmouth Folk Festival has made its first lineup announcement for 2023 including The Unthanks, Gigspanner Big Band & Raynor Winn, Lady Maisery, The Young’uns, Leveret, Topette!!, The Magpie Arc & more.

Trent Freeman, best known as a fiery fiddle player in The Fretless, has released an EP of original fiddle tunes, recorded live on Vancouver Island. The line-up is from the top drawer of Canadian roots talent.

David Morrison shares his Top 10 albums of 2022 including Mali Obomsawin, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Blue Moon Marquee, Pharis & Jason Romero, Of The Sun, Jeb Loy Nichols, Gina Davis and more.

Bob Fish shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Unthanks, Bonny Light Horseman, Joan Shelley, Su-a Lee, Big Thief, Kevin Morby and more.

Mike Davies shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Alison O’Donnell, Mary Gauthier, Janis Ian, Julian Taylor, Emma Guzman, Angeline Morrison, Garrett Heath, Luke James Williams, Michael Weston King and Memorial.