Featuring Dirk Powell & Mark Knopfler, our Song of the Day comes from Heidi Talbot with her new single Empty Promise Land, taken from her forthcoming new album Sing It For A Lifetime.

With the new Oysterband album ‘Read The Sky’ finding the band on top form, it was a thrill to speak at length with frontman and founder John Jones about the new album and much more besides in our Artist of the Month interview.

Sam Carter is back on the road this month with his Home Waters Tour 2022 which kicks off at London’s Green Note. Watch him performing Just As The Tide Was Flowing live.

The Folk by the Oak festival team, who commissioned the incredible Spell Songs project, are excited to announce a unique opportunity to enjoy Spell Songs at their best by tuning in to an exclusive online broadcast of a full live performance at Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Cecil Sharp House, London, announce another peerless and varied season of folk gigs including National Youth Folk Ensemble, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron, Mairearad Green & Anna Massie, a special tribute to Alan James featuring 9Bach, John Metcalfe and elements of Imagined Village and more.

Ben Gazur, author of ‘A Feast of Folklore – talks to us about ‘Witch Cakes’…There are two main types of “witch cakes” that occur in folklore. One is more palatable than the other, as we shall see, but neither is something you would want with a cup of tea.

Taken from her powerful forthcoming album ‘The Unquiet’, watch the accompanying video for Felton Lonnin, the new single from Irish singer Pauline Scanlon. It’s a Northumbrian ballad about a missing child which she sings “to honour the women and children who endured church and state systems of incarceration and separation…”

Celebrating International Women’s Day, on the video for ‘Awe Na Mná (Praise the Women)’, Clare Sands is joined by 100 women on four beaches in the four corners of Ireland, celebrating sisterhood in all its colours.

The first thing you notice about Jadea Kelly on Roses is her voice. It’s an amazing instrument, one that reflects longing, yet can also convey joy.

In time for International Women’s Day and taken from their forthcoming new album “A Year Too Late and a Month Too Soon (Songs from Yorkshire)”, Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones premiere their video for ‘Wanton Lasses Pity Her’ a traditional song from North Yorkshire.

A Folk Show special featuring several Ukrainian bands including DakhaBrakha, Eteria, Gamardah Fungus, Laboratorium Pieśni alongside Oysterband, DLÙ, Bird In The Belly, Topette!!, Ye Vagabonds, Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and more.

At the heart of Samana and All One Breath opposite worlds seem to coalesce forming contradictions that are part of the very fabric of life. They travel emotional pathways through a constantly changing landscape, documenting moments that may never come again.