Populated with some delightful, quirky and perky lyrical wordplay, with ‘Field Notes’, Gina Davis’ hard work and deliberation have yielded one of 2022’s loveliest albums.

Broadside Hacks and Shovel Dance Collective are among those who will come under the spotlight in a new documentary that tells the story of the young vanguard of UK artists sharing radical interpretations, proto-feminist narratives and queer histories through the lens of British traditional folk song. Watch an excerpt here.

Jake Blount has shared another stunning single and video from his new album ‘The New Faith’. The video for “Once There Was No Sun”, a song he learned from a Bessie Jones recording, features Blount alongside Veeva Banga, a South Sudanese dancer and choreographer.

Dave Miller’s ‘Daughter of Experience’ is incredibly intimate; it’s the kind of work that uses the most basic of tools to do something new, in this case, challenge many solo instrumental guitar music tropes while delivering beautiful, quietly powerful music.

Tomorrow marks the release of ‘What Holds The World Together’, the new album from The Wilderness Yet, featuring folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Watch their video for standout track Charlie Fox.

Next month, John Francis Flynn is on tour in the UK supported by Iona Zajac. Following the release of his 2021 debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’ he went on to win Best Folk Singer and Best Emerging Artist at the RTÉ Folk Awards.

Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Long Time To Be Gone’, and recorded in the historic St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights, watch Nora Brown performing ‘Cumberland Gap’, on a fretless tackhead banjo built by her dad.

Computers are now a staple of modern life, but in our latest FRUK video exclusive by Simon J Jones of Harp & a Monkey, the artist winds back the clock to the early days of distressing dial tones and white noise.

Some of our favourites from Sidmouth Folk Festival 2022 Ham Concerts include Eddi Reader plus Ryan Young & David Foley, Show of Hands plus Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Spiers & Boden plus Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, and Kate Rusby plus Jack Rutter.

On 2nd September, English traditional folk singer Jackie Oates will release her 8th solo album, Gracious Wings. Listen to her lead single, La Llorona, featuring Megan Henwood and John Parker.

Four-time Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller, returns with her first new music in over two years with the new single I’m a Rover, featuring guest musicians Kris Drever, Jack Smedley and Louis Abbott.

Folk Radio UK is a media sponsor for Sidmouth Folk Festival 2022 and will be presenting a number of artists through the Cellarful of Folkadelia concert series that continues to open the door to a new world of possibilities inspired by tradition.