Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2021 including Grouper, Shannon Lay, C. Joynes, Stick in the Wheel, Sally Anne Morgan, Sarah Louise, Devin Hoff, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts og Völvur and Arab Strap

As part of the Unwrapped Series at Kings Place, London, Unity in Song is a weekend celebration of powerful voices from the folk tradition, and the joy of community singing. Ft. Martin & Eliza Carthy, Cara Dillon, Peggy Seeger, Green Ribbons and more.

Featuring Tim Eriksen, Dyad, Kiila, Mary Lattimore, Antonymes, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O’Brien, Cinder Well, Ghédalia Tazartès + Rhys Chatham, Anna & Elizabeth, Xylouris White, Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Richard Skelton.

David Pratt shares his Top 10 Albums of 2021 including Carbonhobo, Danny George Wilson, Freedom to Roam, Joe Danks, Katy Rose Bennett, Phil Odgers, Ray Cooper, releases from Analog Africa and more.

You won’t find a Christmas bell anywhere on Hiss Golden Messenger’s O Come All Ye Faithful. The songs are both reflective and surprising, fitting the season and highlighting the way forward towards the spring and a new year.

There is no other songwriter working at quite the imaginative level that Dawson is consistently reaching these days, and in Circle, he has found a band whose richness, variety and adaptability is the perfect complement to his unique vision. Henki is a strong late contender for album of the year.

These are Folk Radio UK’s favourite Top 100 Albums of 2021 selected from the many albums that were reviewed over the past year covering folk, roots, alternative and global music. Dig deeper by listening and reading our reviews.

Analog Africa, Lankum’s Ian Lynch, Dan Torigoe of Doleceola Recordings and Landworker’s Alliance are among those that delivered some spectacular compilation albums this year. Here are our favourite Top 10 Compilation Albums of 2021.

The Sidmouth Folk Festival returns in grand style in summer 2022 with main stage headliners including Kate Rusby, Eddi Reader, Show of Hands, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Spiers and Boden, Jez Lowe, Granny’s Attic, Yves Lambert Trio and more.

West Co. Sligo native BRÍDÍN does not do things in small measures. For her EP launch, she performed on a Boeing 767 that her dad transported from Shannon Airport, along the west coast of Ireland to Sligo by tug and barge. Watch the launch here.

Ben Howard’s latest album ‘Collections From The Whiteout’ found the singer-songwriter at his most experimental. As part of his four-date stripped-back UK tour, the Bristol audience were offered a different perspective of that album’s songs alongside the bonus of enjoying them in such rare intimate settings.

Max Richter is to give the only British performance in 2022 of his acclaimed work ‘Voices’ and his classic piece ‘Infra’ at the COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre. Whether you are new to Richter’s work or not, this is sure to be a moving and unforgettable experience.