Belfast International Arts Festival returns from 6 October to 7 November with headliners Glen Hansard and The Great Irish Songbook, featuring legendary Irish folk group Dervish, alongside Brian Kennedy, Cara Dillon, Karen Matheson, Eddi Reader and Belfast’s own Open Arts Community Choir.

Adam Holmes has long been one of the country’s most talented and impressive vocalists, with Dreamweaver he takes that step further to being one of the finest songwriters in the UK today. Dreamweaver is a truly heart-warming listen and a formidably affecting and potent release.

Watch the full concert that Pentangle recorded for Belgian TV in 1972, prior to the release of Solomon’s Seal, featuring the original lineup of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.

Featuring: John Francis Flynn (our Artist of the Month), Martin A. Egan, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, The Deadlians, Stick in the Wheel, Dick Gaughan, Ye Vagabonds, Sweeny’s Men, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Landless and more.

Taking turns both tender and turbulent, John Francis Flynn’s “I Would Not Live Always” is bracing, unpredictable and without a doubt one of the most deeply affecting folk debuts of recent years.

A Celebration of Sidmouth Folk Festival is now in full swing in the East Devon seaside town, but there’s a feast of exclusive online concerts and workshops to get involved with too.

Watch Christy Moore performing ‘Quiet Desperation’ live at The Point Theatre, Dublin in 2006. The song which was written by Floyd Red Crow Westerman also featured on his 1985 album ‘Ordinary Man’ on which Enya provided backing vocals.

In partnership with Cambridge Folk Festival, BFI curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt have put together a selection of folk-related films to watch for free on the BFI website including documentaries featuring The Watersons, Kathryn Tickell, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and more.

Filmed at Nine Stones Close on Harthill Moor, Derbyshire, watch ‘The Grey Ladies’, the beautiful new video and moving single from “Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter” featuring Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger of improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion and poet and wordsmith Jessie Summerhayes.

Jon Boden announces two more dates for his “Last Mile Home” tour. He also has a Songwriting Retreat in September and will perform with Eliza Carthy as a duo for the first time at London’s iconic Union Chapel for a special Wassail celebration in December.

The stripped-back ‘Live from the Glass Isle’ not only illuminates what a gifted songwriter Chris Cleverley is but is also a glowing testament to his growing and emotionally nuanced power as a singer and the luminous nature of his guitar playing.

Seaside is the latest single from London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum, taken from his debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection. “…a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players…”.