Ahead of his November UK Tour, watch Declan O’Rourke performing a unique version of ‘The Stars Over Kinvara’, from his new album ‘Arrivals’, recorded as part of a TG4 series celebrating 70 years of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.

Listen to Starlight, the new single from Sophie Janna. It’s the third song from her forthcoming EP, Wide World, released on Revanche Records on September 17.

José González’s “Local Valley” treads the line between the secular and the spiritual – the ideas put forward in this album probe the corners of human consciousness while ultimately being an expression of love, peace and unity.

Animated and Directed by Marry Waterson, ‘Born on the Other Side’, the new video from the Edinburgh-sired baroque folk-pop quintet Storm the Palace, resembles the theme song and opening credits to the sort of 1970s children’s TV drama that promised nightmares before teatime.

Folk/Americana singer songwriter & guitarist, Jason McNiff prepares to go on tour this Autumn in support of his widely acclaimed new album ‘Dust Of Yesterday’. Not to be missed.

There was plenty of highlights at a long-overdue Walton Folk Festival featuring Gilmore & Roberts, Odette Michell, Jenn & Laura-Beth, Kim Lowings and the Greenwood, Jacob & Drinkwater and Trials of Cato. It wasn’t without its serendipitous moments.

Johnny Whalley shares his highlights from this year’s Gate to Southwell festival including Anxo Lorenzo, Spiers & Boden, Gigspanner Big Band, Talisk, The Henry Girls, Banter, Damien O’Kane and David Kosky, Tom Lewis, The Breath, Chris Wood, The Young’uns and many more.

We chat to John Spiers and Jon Boden (our Artists of the Month) about their new album Fallow Ground that finds them reunited and revelling in the sheer fun of music-making rooted in the English folk tradition.

Kitty Macfarlane heads out on tour this October with her new band. To celebrate, we have a new video of her performing ‘Glass Eel’, taken from her astonishingly accomplished debut album “Namer of Clouds”.

Read the final guest post from Ye Vagabonds for their ‘All Boats Rise’ canal boat tour…they are joined by Leo O Kelly of Tír Na nÓg, Laura Quirke and Joshua Burnside and Brigid Mae Power. Don’t miss their Vicar Street gig on 25th September.

Springtime In New York, the latest Bootleg Series from Bob Dylan covering 1980-85, proves beyond doubt that Dylan, unlike many during this period, did not lose it in the early 1980s…so much of this strong material will rise deservedly towards the top end of the Dylan canon.

Taken from his forthcoming album Phenomenology, watch The Mining Co. video for new single “Deity Arrived”…Sparklehorse meets linguistic relativity…equally wonderous and mind-altering.