Featuring Peter Knight, Sacha Trochet and Roger Flack, The Gigspanner Trio, are on an extensive tour from this month. This also includes dates as the Gigspanner Big Band, an expanded lineup with Hannah Martin, Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) and John Spiers.

Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke’s “A Place Like Home” establishes that he is an artist of extraordinary depth, exposing the inner voices, thoughts and terrors of his own human frailty.

Eliza Gilkyson announces “Songs From the River Wind”, her love letter to the old west. – snapshots of the people and places, lives and loves lost and found over her years of wandering the West as a musical minstrel, searching for her heart’s home.

With his critically acclaimed new album Last of the Better Days Ahead now out, US folk legend Charlie Parr announces a 2022 European Tour, including an extensive run of UK & Irish dates.

Solely, is the second album from Natalie Jane Hill. She exposes herself on a level that many of us would choose not to. That she has the bravery to bare it all makes it a remarkably mature work.

Scottish legends Charlie and Craig Reid, aka The Proclaimers, join Folk by the Oak’s ‘Line-up of Headliners’ alongside Richard Thomspon and Spell Songs.

Not a lot of music holds the determination and depth Darragh O’Dea shows on Tilly and the Postmaster. This is a disc for anyone who appreciates the power of music – to expose, to endure and in the end, to provide hope.

Our Song of the Day comes from the amazing Jenny Parrott with ‘Georgica’ – It’s almost like a prayer and call for hope for young female energy. – It features on her forthcoming new album ‘The Fire I Saw’.

‘You Don’t Have To Know’ showcases Eleanor Buckland’s raw honesty and deft songcraft which finds her rising above, casting out, and ultimately owning the dark emotions that fuel such soul-baring lyrics.

A special Folk Show featuring: Lau, Lleuwen, Liz Green, Nancy Elizabeth, King Creosote, Sweet William, Dick Gaughan, Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, Anna & Elizabeth, Tommy Reck, Serious Sam Barrett, Jim Ghedi, Kathryn Tickell & Corrina Hewat, Bendith, Fernhill, The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Dave Burland, Lal Waterson, Lisa O’Neill, Nic Jones.

The joy and pleasure Dan Walsh exudes during this live performance is striking. Recorded in his hometown of Stafford, Live at The Floodgate, captures the magic and glow of Walsh at his very best.

Findlay Napier and Megan Henwood are back fresh from the lab and bursting with synergy as The Story Song Scientists. Taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Quantum Lyrics’, watch their lyric video for the gentle, flowing ‘Ode to the Man with the Golden Arm’.