Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 and 1976 is a never-released-before project from The Owsley Stanley Foundation and Claddagh Records. The 2CD also features bonus material of the last interview Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains ever gave.

Masters of Tradition Festival returns to Bantry, Co. Cork in August with another great programme that journeys to the heart of Irish music including Martin Hayes, Cormac McCarthy, Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Kathryn Tickell Trio, Lorcán MacMathúna, Steve Cooney, Caitlín Nic Gabhann and more.

Right from the get-go, Love the Stranger by Friendship reveals Dan Wriggins is a songwriter who understands the importance of small moments. In those moments, much is revealed about his character and how they loom much larger than they might at first appear.

While it may be conceived of as a ‘Fleeting Adventure’, the work of Andrew Tuttle is rapidly exploring alternate dimensions in the art and craft of the banjo as an instrument.

Our Song of the Day comes from Eliza Carthy & The Restitution with their new single ‘The Snow it Melts the Soonest’. It’s taken from her new album ‘Queen Of The Whirl’.

These three singers demonstrate that singing and inspiring have never had an age limit. The gift of ‘All New’, is we still have the opportunity to marvel at what Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer can create!

Painting a wide-ranging vista of instrumental narratives and musical styles, Joseph Allred delivers a wonderfully varied set through The Rambles & Rags of Shiloh.

The sounds of these instruments have rarely sounded better, nor as much fun, as they do on Revel – a testament to the talents of Tarren and a confident and welcome signifier that English folk music is in very safe hands.

Glasgow-based folk four-piece Gnoss have just announced they are touring this August and September and they have also started working on a new album. They will be playing some of the new tracks live for the first time.

Following the success of this summer’s inaugural Dandelion Festival Glasgow, the organisers are delighted to announce the first acts for the Inverness free festival this September including, Spell Songs, Hannah Rarity, Dallahan, The Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton Trio, Hamish Napier, Sona Jobarteh & more.

Through 100 years of film and TV footage, Arcadia explores the changing face of the British countryside and our relationship to the land and each other. It takes in folk carnivals and masked parades, harvesting, communes and raves, mechanisation, fires, floods and much more.

Watch the video for “Put Me In A Corner”, the final track on the album “48 Hours With David Ford And Annie Dressner.” “If they can do this in two days, imagine what wonders a week might produce.”